Hi there, I would suggest, that the stable DT versions should be available as well for the last LTS version of Ubuntu. Of course, there are flatpaks, but I never got them to work with OpenCL support.
So i would find LTS support quite useful. I’m using KDE Neon, which is based on the LTS releases. And I think there are many users which only use LTS releases for stability reasons.
Who is going to take the extra burden of building for a distro that ships outdated tools and libraries?
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@kofa, define outdated. From the ubuntu website (https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle):
LTS or ‘Long Term Support’ releases are published every two years in April. LTS releases are the ‘enterprise grade’ releases of Ubuntu and are used the most. An estimated 95% of all Ubuntu installations are LTS releases.
@g-man Thanks for this constructive help. I already tried that. Anyway I didn’t got it to run.
In the end it’s the decision of the devs. I have to take what I get and will for sure find my way through, just like I did in the past.
Moreover, the darktable CI runs on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so the current development source builds and runs on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS just fine. The plan is to always support (at least) the latest/current Ubuntu LTS.
Packaging, however, is a different story, and you need to address queries to either OBS packagers above, or Ubuntu/Debian maintainers directly, or step up and help w/ packaging.
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Thanks. I recalled this thread, and didn’t realise gcc 12 has been available in 22.04:
Does it matter?
It’s still an archive. You can open it and extract the installation script. And execute it with appropriate parameters to install legacy opencl and no video driver.