Darktable simple installs messed up?

Software darktable
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I just installed Unbuntu 22.04.1!

I’m trying to get Darktable 4.2 installed.

If I try from the Unbuntu Software app I get version 4.0.1

I go to darktable.org and use their install page, go to latest release and select Unbuntu and xUnbuntu 22.04 to download the Deb package which says 4.2 in the title and when I finish installing I open Darktable and get version 3.8.1??!!

What’s going on? I have been trying to rtfm but it’s a long manual so I’ll need a few days. Remaining options seem to be learn git and build from there or the source on the page. I tried that briefly and when I ran the build.sh script I got a can’t find cmake. I guess I’ll need to rtfm on that.

This all seems odd. Is this just me? Or are others seeing this?

Merry Christmas all, maybe this is just a case of “it’s was just released on 22Dec22 give the developers some time off already.” Which I can wait, but curious if I’m seeing a bug others are not…

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Did you follow the steps on the obs to install the repo?

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Maybe?

Sorry new to this. I think I downloaded it and then let the software manager install it by right clicking and opening it with that.

If you don’t mind a link to the howto would be appreciated.

I think I read terminal, dpkg -I blah.deb might be another way.

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On darktable.org install page, click on latest release on OBS section. You will have instructions to install it on OBS page after clicking on your distrib then “Add repository…”

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Pretty sure I copied and pasted the terminal commands:

echo ‘deb /repositories/graphics:/darktable/xUbuntu_22.04 - openSUSE Download /’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics:darktable.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics:darktable/xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/graphics_darktable.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install darktable

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Wow, not sure why this makes sense. But running:
sudo dpkg -i blah.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Did the trick. Blah.deb was the fully qualified path to the deb file I downloaded off darktable.org

Whelp off to rtfm on the dpkg command…

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