Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running Windows have a look at this.
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Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running
Windows have a look at this. Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer. Download from here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download double click on the downloaded file to install Install Ubuntu in your VB Open the VB Manager Open Setting Open Shared Folders click the plus sign choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV select auto mount start Ubuntu Select in the upper menubar from VB devices Select install host additions Follow the instructions If done shut down Ubuntu Shut down Virtual Box Open the Virtual Box again Select The Ubuntu image click on the green arrow to start Go in your Ubuntu application menu look for Terminal and open it Once in terminal type: cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed to backward slashes) cd mnt sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes) click filesystem click mnt click MY_WIN_DRV There is all your stuff from your windows drive. (Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in windows too, if you go there.) Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center type in search field: digiKam or showFoto select and install. If you want to try a newer version goto http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621 for further details. If problems occur, ask the list for help. Good luck, Rinus If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual installation of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice. I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing the real install. That causes the omission in this how to. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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You don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in the
list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used Digikam with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam everywhere with you and run it on any PC. Marie-Noëlle 2011/9/1 sleepless <[hidden email]>: > Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running > Windows have a look at this. > > Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot > system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer. > > > > > Download from here: > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > > Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download > > double click on the downloaded file to install > > Install Ubuntu in your VB > > Open the VB Manager > > Open Setting > > Open Shared Folders > > click the plus sign > > choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu > > give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV > > select auto mount > > start Ubuntu > > Select in the upper menubar from VB devices > > Select install host additions > > Follow the instructions > > If done shut down Ubuntu > > Shut down Virtual Box > > Open the Virtual Box again > > Select The Ubuntu image > > click on the green arrow to start > > Go in your Ubuntu application menu > > look for Terminal and open it > > Once in terminal type: > > cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed to > backward slashes) > > cd mnt > > sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV > > sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV > > Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes) > > click filesystem > click mnt > click MY_WIN_DRV > > There is all your stuff from your windows drive. > > (Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in > windows too, if you go there.) > > Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center > > type in search field: digiKam or showFoto > > select and install. > > If you want to try a newer version goto > http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621 > > for further details. > > If problems occur, ask the list for help. > > Good luck, > Rinus > > If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual installation > of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice. > I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing the > real install. That causes the omission in this how to. > > > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users > -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Op 01-09-11 16:18, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef:
> You don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in the > list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used Digikam > with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam everywhere > with you and run it on any PC. > > Marie-Noëlle Thanks for the info. Will digikam not run considerably slower from am usb drive? Rinus > 2011/9/1 sleepless<[hidden email]>: >> Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running >> Windows have a look at this. >> >> Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot >> system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer. >> >> >> >> >> Download from here: >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads >> >> Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download >> >> double click on the downloaded file to install >> >> Install Ubuntu in your VB >> >> Open the VB Manager >> >> Open Setting >> >> Open Shared Folders >> >> click the plus sign >> >> choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu >> >> give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV >> >> select auto mount >> >> start Ubuntu >> >> Select in the upper menubar from VB devices >> >> Select install host additions >> >> Follow the instructions >> >> If done shut down Ubuntu >> >> Shut down Virtual Box >> >> Open the Virtual Box again >> >> Select The Ubuntu image >> >> click on the green arrow to start >> >> Go in your Ubuntu application menu >> >> look for Terminal and open it >> >> Once in terminal type: >> >> cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed to >> backward slashes) >> >> cd mnt >> >> sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV >> >> sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV >> >> Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes) >> >> click filesystem >> click mnt >> click MY_WIN_DRV >> >> There is all your stuff from your windows drive. >> >> (Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in >> windows too, if you go there.) >> >> Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center >> >> type in search field: digiKam or showFoto >> >> select and install. >> >> If you want to try a newer version goto >> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621 >> >> for further details. >> >> If problems occur, ask the list for help. >> >> Good luck, >> Rinus >> >> If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual installation >> of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice. >> I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing the >> real install. That causes the omission in this how to. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Digikam-users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users >> > > _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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I didn't run it on a production scale.
But my guess is the program will be loaded in RAM when being launched so it shouldn't run much slower than usual. Marie-Noëlle 2011/9/1 sleepless <[hidden email]>: > Op 01-09-11 16:18, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef: >> >> You don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in the >> list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used Digikam >> with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam everywhere >> with you and run it on any PC. >> >> Marie-Noëlle > > Thanks for the info. Will digikam not run considerably slower from am usb > drive? > Rinus >> >> 2011/9/1 sleepless<[hidden email]>: >>> >>> Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running >>> Windows have a look at this. >>> >>> Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot >>> system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Download from here: >>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads >>> >>> Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download >>> >>> double click on the downloaded file to install >>> >>> Install Ubuntu in your VB >>> >>> Open the VB Manager >>> >>> Open Setting >>> >>> Open Shared Folders >>> >>> click the plus sign >>> >>> choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu >>> >>> give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV >>> >>> select auto mount >>> >>> start Ubuntu >>> >>> Select in the upper menubar from VB devices >>> >>> Select install host additions >>> >>> Follow the instructions >>> >>> If done shut down Ubuntu >>> >>> Shut down Virtual Box >>> >>> Open the Virtual Box again >>> >>> Select The Ubuntu image >>> >>> click on the green arrow to start >>> >>> Go in your Ubuntu application menu >>> >>> look for Terminal and open it >>> >>> Once in terminal type: >>> >>> cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed >>> to >>> backward slashes) >>> >>> cd mnt >>> >>> sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV >>> >>> sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV >>> >>> Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes) >>> >>> click filesystem >>> click mnt >>> click MY_WIN_DRV >>> >>> There is all your stuff from your windows drive. >>> >>> (Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in >>> windows too, if you go there.) >>> >>> Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center >>> >>> type in search field: digiKam or showFoto >>> >>> select and install. >>> >>> If you want to try a newer version goto >>> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621 >>> >>> for further details. >>> >>> If problems occur, ask the list for help. >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Rinus >>> >>> If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual >>> installation >>> of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice. >>> I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing >>> the >>> real install. That causes the omission in this how to. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Digikam-users mailing list >>> [hidden email] >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users > -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Op 01-09-11 16:18, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef:
On certain occasions this could be useful to me. I can not find in my mailbox and the archives appear hardly searchibleYou don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in the list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used Digikam with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam everywhere with you and run it on any PC. Marie-Noëlle Could I consider the text shown beneath that has been brought up by google as your final text? If so could it be improved in the sense that it becomes reproducable by almost anyone regardles which platform they prefer?. I myself may not be the smartest person around but I don´t think I could do with this text. Rinus Anyway, I ended up with a USB-key on which I've created 2 partitions with Gparted: - one fat32 of about 2Gio for the Live-Fedora system - the remaining part formatted in ext4, being available for data. The .iso Live system image is created on the key with the following command: # livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 64 <name-of-your-iso-file-system> <destination-unmounted-device> This setting provides 64Mb of persistent /home for the liveuser, that allows to keep all the settings and customization (for Gnome, Digikam, etc.) from one session to the other. The first time I boot from the key, I launch Digikam and set up the database and first collection on the 'data' partition of the USB-key; the key is then ready tgo be used by an 'end-user'. This seems to work pretty well, but hasn't been used in production yet. And keep in mind this USB-based Digikam will be used only for little local collections for quite a short time, as they will be centralized periodically onto a central database on disk. My purpose here was to provide 10 to 15 team members scattered 'on the field' with a system ready to use so they can upload their own pictures and do some tagging before transferring their data to the team manager every couple of weeks. This will be used in the 'real life' pretty soon. I'll let you know if I have to change or adapt something. Marie-Noëlle 2011/9/1 sleepless [hidden email]:Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running Windows have a look at this. Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer. Download from here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download double click on the downloaded file to install Install Ubuntu in your VB Open the VB Manager Open Setting Open Shared Folders click the plus sign choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV select auto mount start Ubuntu Select in the upper menubar from VB devices Select install host additions Follow the instructions If done shut down Ubuntu Shut down Virtual Box Open the Virtual Box again Select The Ubuntu image click on the green arrow to start Go in your Ubuntu application menu look for Terminal and open it Once in terminal type: cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed to backward slashes) cd mnt sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes) click filesystem click mnt click MY_WIN_DRV There is all your stuff from your windows drive. (Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in windows too, if you go there.) Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center type in search field: digiKam or showFoto select and install. If you want to try a newer version goto http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621 for further details. If problems occur, ask the list for help. Good luck, Rinus If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual installation of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice. I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing the real install. That causes the omission in this how to. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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sleepless <[hidden email]> wrote: > Op 01-09-11 16:18, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef: > > You don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in > > the list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used > > Digikam with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam > > everywhere with you and run it on any PC. > > > > Marie-Noëlle > Thanks for the info. Will digikam not run considerably slower from am > usb drive? Maybe a little slower than from a "normal" harddrive - but certainly faster than in VirtualBox! I'm using VirtualBox almost daily for testing different web browsers (mainly with Windows in them) and it is a lot slower than running the same systems without the virtual machine. My host system is Linux, though, as is my system of choice at home for more than 11 years now. Vlado -- http://vlado-do.de _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 01/09/2011 20:17, Vlado Plaga a écrit :
> a lot slower than running the same systems without the virtual machine. > My host system is Linux, though, as is my system of choice at home for did you validate the hardware virtual flag in the bios? most modern computers have it now jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Op 01-09-11 20:21, jdd schreef:
> Le 01/09/2011 20:17, Vlado Plaga a écrit : > >> a lot slower than running the same systems without the virtual machine. >> My host system is Linux, though, as is my system of choice at home for > > did you validate the hardware virtual flag in the bios? most modern > computers have it now > > jdd > hope to hear from Vlado if his machine has that option. Rinus _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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2011/9/1 sleepless <[hidden email]>:
> > On certain occasions this could be useful to me. I can not find in my > mailbox and the archives appear hardly searchible > > Could I consider the text shown beneath that has been brought up by google > as your final text? Yes, I think it is my last message on the subject. > If so could it be improved in the sense that it becomes reproducable by > almost anyone regardles which platform they prefer?. > I myself may not be the smartest person around but I don´t think I could do > with this text. > > Rinus > The thing is you have to create you own LiveUSB, as those provided by the distros won't include Digikam; additionally, if you want to retain your settings from one session to the next, you need to make room for some persistent data in /home. Apart from that, the LiveUSB creation is done according to standard procedures. But I did this on a Linux machine, and I wouldn't know how to proceed on a Windows computer. I can confirm I have been able to use this LiveUSB on about 10 different PCs; unfortunately, Macs are a different story... Marie-Noëlle -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Op 01-09-11 20:45, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef:
> 2011/9/1 sleepless<[hidden email]>: >> On certain occasions this could be useful to me. I can not find in my >> mailbox and the archives appear hardly searchible >> >> Could I consider the text shown beneath that has been brought up by google >> as your final text? > Yes, I think it is my last message on the subject. > >> If so could it be improved in the sense that it becomes reproducable by >> almost anyone regardles which platform they prefer?. >> I myself may not be the smartest person around but I don´t think I could do >> with this text. >> >> Rinus >> > The thing is you have to create you own LiveUSB, as those provided by > the distros won't include Digikam; additionally, if you want to retain > your settings from one session to the next, you need to make room for > some persistent data in /home. > Apart from that, the LiveUSB creation is done according to standard procedures. put me on the track > But I did this on a Linux machine, and I wouldn't know how to proceed > on a Windows computer. I can see that this is a problem > I can confirm I have been able to use this LiveUSB on about 10 > different PCs; unfortunately, Macs are a different story... > > Marie-Noëlle > Thanks, Rinus _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 01/09/2011 20:45, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> The thing is you have to create you own LiveUSB, as those provided by > the distros won't include Digikam; additionally, if you want to retain > your settings from one session to the next, you need to make room for > some persistent data in /home. > Apart from that, the LiveUSB creation is done according to standard procedures. > But I did this on a Linux machine, and I wouldn't know how to proceed > on a Windows computer. you can build it on susestudio http://susestudio.com/#login may be there is already one, I didn't search (it's all on line) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Op 01-09-11 21:24, jdd schreef:
> Le 01/09/2011 20:45, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit : > >> The thing is you have to create you own LiveUSB, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch Here I found the 20 page instruction. I think I am not going to send somebody in the woods with such a procedure, for myself I have to think twice too. >> as those provided by >> the distros won't include Digikam; additionally, if you want to retain >> your settings from one session to the next, you need to make room for >> some persistent data in /home. >> Apart from that, the LiveUSB creation is done according to standard >> procedures. >> But I did this on a Linux machine, and I wouldn't know how to proceed >> on a Windows computer. > > you can build it on susestudio > > http://susestudio.com/#login my privacy. Can this ever lead to a live usb with digikam on it? Rinus > > may be there is already one, I didn't search (it's all on line) > > jdd > _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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2011/9/1 sleepless <[hidden email]>:
>> Apart from that, the LiveUSB creation is done according to standard >> procedures. > > did not know that standard procedures existed, this knowledge and google put > me on the track I used this documentation (in french) to create my own LiveUSB: http://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9ation_de_Live_CD/DVD_et_de_Live_USB and http://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Les_fichiers_kickstart Perhaps there are similar pages available on the english/international Fedora site. >> But I did this on a Linux machine, and I wouldn't know how to proceed >> on a Windows computer. > > I can see that this is a problem >> I had to create a LiveUSB on a Windows machine a few days ago. But as my goal was to install Linux on the machine, I just used a standard installation provided by the distro, and I will install afterward every additional package I intend to use. Marie-Noëlle -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Op 01-09-11 21:47, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef:
> 2011/9/1 sleepless<[hidden email]>: > >>> Apart from that, the LiveUSB creation is done according to standard >>> procedures. >> did not know that standard procedures existed, this knowledge and google put >> me on the track > I used this documentation (in french) to create my own LiveUSB: > http://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9ation_de_Live_CD/DVD_et_de_Live_USB > and http://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Les_fichiers_kickstart > Perhaps there are similar pages available on the english/international > Fedora site. I can read this but I won´t go there, I quit. good night Rinus >>> But I did this on a Linux machine, and I wouldn't know how to proceed >>> on a Windows computer. >> I can see that this is a problem > I had to create a LiveUSB on a Windows machine a few days ago. But as > my goal was to install Linux on the machine, I just used a standard > installation provided by the distro, and I will install afterward > every additional package I intend to use. > > Marie-Noëlle > > _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 01/09/2011 21:39, sleepless a écrit :
>> http://susestudio.com/#login > I entered the site and had no idea what I was doing, exept for giving > up my privacy. Can this ever lead to a live usb with digikam on it? don't ask for much (any openid), and allow you to build your own live dvd of openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:SUSE_Studio jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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