I vaguely recall our Mac porter needing to jump through a few hoops to make this work on OS X.īut beyond that I don't know exact/current details. That said, this is extra complicated on OS X, because Apple's compiler is outdated and thus only supports a uselessly outdated version of OpenMP. How efficiently this is varies per module, since some algorithms simply don't parallelize well.

In any case, it seems that 2.6.0 will not be the result of upgrading through the PPA if one is using Mint 18.X.I am considering upgrading my old Mac to a new multi-core Mac Pro, and have been unable to find whether the Mac OS version of darktable supports multi-core processing, and if so, how many cores?ĭarktable (when built with recent/proper versions of GCC) uses OpenMP which allows most of the imaging pipeline to utilitize multiple cores. I'm unclear whether (a) the xenial compatible version will be upgraded to 2.6.0 in the fullness of time, (b) I should upgrade Mint further to 19.x to get DT 2.6.0, or (c) with great agony, use the tar.xz file to build a version with unknown compatibility for Mint 18.3. This is confirmed by DT 2.4.4 being installed as a result of adding the PPA. I just upgraded Mint 17.3 to 18.3 (xenial based), and de Bruijn's PPA is only supplying at this writing DT version 2.4.4 for the xenial version of Ubuntu per his information.

You can then do the upgrade in the usual way:ĭarktable Releases : Pascal de BruijnHmmmm. The smiley should be a colon followed by a lower case P.

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa mjdebruijn/darktable-release If you are impatient to try the new version (like me) here is what works: Darktable 2.6 is not in the official repository yet.

Darktable portable