DigiKam 4.8.0 released, Install/Update on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 “jessie”, Debian 7 “wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux

DigiKam is an open source project that provides users with a dedicated photo management solution, specifically designed to be deployed on KDE desktop environments. It includes image editor and organizer components, which can be easily extended through a built-in and powerful plugin architecture.

Features at a glance

Key features include red eyes correction, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation and luminosity correction, color balance, color inversion, color auto-correction, ratio cropping, free cropping, black & white and tonality converter using curves adjustments, rotation, and flipping.

With this tool, you will be able to import pictures, organize your photo collection, view images, edit and enhance photos, create slideshows and calendars, print and share your photo creations using social web services, email images, and much more.

What’s new in digiKam 4.8.0:

• This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port is under progress.

When running the application for the first time, users will be asked to enter the path of the database where the image files will be stored, set how they want to manipulate RAW images, as well as if they want to add information to image files, and how photos will be displayed in preview mode.

In addition, the first time wizard will ask you to set how images should be opened when right clicked, as well as to enable or disable contextual tooltips in folder-view and icon-view modes. After this, the application will open and will prompt users with a “Tip of the Day” dialog, from where they can learn how to use certain functions of the application.

The user interface is comprised of the main image view area and a sidebar that acts as an image navigator, tag browser, calendar browser, timeline viewer, image finder, duplicate finder, geographical locator, and people tagger.

Install/Update DigiKam 4.8.0 on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 “jessie”, Debian 7 “wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux  :

You can install digiKam using pre-compiled version of digiKam. This is done by your distribution. A disadvantage is that in some cases the version provided by your distribution is not the latest stable version the digiKam team has released. The links given below will give you information about which version your distribution packages.

Distribution	Link to the list of digiKam packages	Command line to install
Kubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Ubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Debian	here and reason why the latest version of packages is not in testing can be found here	apt-get install digikam
Arch Linux	here	pacman -Sy digikam
Ark Linux	here	apt-get install digikam
Mandriva/Mageia Linux	here	urpmi digikam
SUSE Linux	here	yast -i digikam
Fedora Linux	here	yum install digikam
Gentoo Linux	here	emerge digikam