How to get darktable 2.6.2? [solved]

[hpbirkeland (Hans Petter)]

Hi, folks,

Since it looks like Pascal de Bruijn doesn’t update his PPA these days, what are the options to get 2.6.2 for Ubuntu-based distros? I found a link to an OpenSuse-page with downloadable .deb-files and repository in the darktable Facebook group. The .deb-packages complain that I have a newer version installed, which is strange since I have 2.6.1, and the repository has 2.7.x, which I don’t want now. So is my only option compiling myself?

[darix]

you need to be more clear which repositories (urls) you have used in the past. it can be if you used 2.7 snapshots in the past that you can not go back to 2.6.2 without resetting your sqlite files from darktable. but you can keep using newer 2.7/master snapshots.

all packages built on build.opensuse.org can be found here:

Various packages for darktable

For a while i had snapshot packages for darktable in my home namespace on the OBS. Not too long ago I added Debian/Ubuntu support with borrowing some files from pmjdebruijn’s ppa and in the end bremner’s official debian package. So with the 2.4.0 release … I thought why not restructure our whole darktable packaging in the OBS to make it easier. So now we have 3 sources for darktable packages for you: Latest Release https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=graphics:darktable&packag…

[paperdigits (Mica)]

Snap or flatpak are both in the newest release version.

[hpbirkeland (Hans Petter)]

Ok, what I have now is darktable 2.6.1:

$ darktable --version
this is darktable 2.6.1
copyright (c) 2009-2019 johannes hanika

So I went to Install package graphics:darktable / darktable

Tried first to download and install the .deb-package for Ubuntu 18.04, which I think is right for Mint 19.1, called darktable_2.6.2_1.1_amd64.deb. On installing it I get a message that I already have a newer version installed. How can 2.6.1 be newer than 2.6.2???

Secondly I followed instructions to add the repo, did “sudo apt-get update” and “sudo apt-get install darktable”. Got the message that I already had the latest version (1:2.6.1-0pmjdebruijn1~bionic). And the OpenSuse repo shows up in “Software Sources”, but not in Synaptic Package manager. I don’t understand anything at the moment…

[hpbirkeland (Hans Petter)]

I don’t know what snap is and I don’t want flatpak. I had flatpack Gimp for a while, it was a total pain, completely isolated from the rest of the system. Have been using .debs, PPAs and repos for almost 15 years and it’s brilliant.

[darix]

well I do not have a VM for testing now … but maybe something like “apt-get install darktable-2.6.2” works. so it switches to that package.

btw: before the apt-get lines there is an instruction to add our repository to your system. did you do that too?

[hpbirkeland (Hans Petter)]

@darix

maybe something like “apt-get install darktable-2.6.2” works. so it switches to that package.

No, that does not work.

@darix

btw: before the apt-get lines there is an instruction to add our repository to your system. did you do that too?

Yes, as I said in my last paragraph. And the repo shows up in “Software Sources”. But there is no trace of it in Synaptic, and also Synaptic shows 2.6.1 as the latest version.

[hpbirkeland (Hans Petter)]

I found the solution, for some reason I had to uninstall the old version and disable Pascal’s PPA. Then 2.6.2 appeared in Synaptic and I could install it. My best guess is that a time stamp is wrong somewhere, resulting in the newest version appearing to be older.