Installing a tarball will get you the most up-to-date stable version of digiKam. But it can happen that you run into all kinds of problems related to compiling. So, if your distribution is running behind a lot, you can install a tarball.
Before installing a tarball, it is better to prevent conflicts to uninstall the digiKam package provided by your distribution. First you have to download digiKam from :
- This repository for stable releases.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/download/tarball/