Can’t wait till the latest version of digiKam appears in the official Ubuntu software repositories? You don’t have to: using the personal package archives (PPA) provided by the Launchpad service, you can install the latest release of digiKam with a few simple commands. Continue to read
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-23_install_the_latest_version_of_digikam_on_ubuntu_10.04/