Installing a tarball

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• Introduction
• Download digiKam
• Install External Dependencies
• Extract and Install digiKam

Tutorial Skill Level: ADVANCED

Introduction

Installing a tarball will provide you with the most up-to-date stable version of digiKam. However, you may encounter various compilation-related issues.

If your Linux distribution is significantly outdated, installing from a tarball can be a good alternative.

Before installing a tarball, it is recommended to uninstall any existing digiKam package provided by your distribution to avoid conflicts.

Download digiKam

• Stable releases
• Older, deprecated releases (not maintained)

Install External Dependencies

Make sure to install all digiKam dependencies before proceeding.

Extract and Install digiKam

1. Extract the tarball using the following command:

   tar -xvJf filename.xz
   

2. Navigate to the extracted directory and run the commands to compile and install digiKam.