How To Install digikam on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install digikam on CentOS 7. digikam is A digital camera accessing & photo management application

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install digikam on CentOS 7.

What is digikam

digiKam is an easy to use and powerful digital photo management application, which makes importing, organizing and manipulating digital photos a “snap”. An easy to use interface is provided to connect to your digital camera, preview the images and download and/or delete them. digiKam built-in image editor makes the common photo correction a simple task. The image editor is extensible via plugins, can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to extend its capabilities even further for photo manipulations, import and export, etc. Install the kipi-plugins packages to use them.

We can use yum or dnf to install digikam on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install digikam.

Install digikam on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install digikam using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install digikam

Install digikam on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install digikam using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install digikam

How To Uninstall digikam on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the digikam package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove digikam

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install digikam on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.