How to build digikam for dummies

[Rinus]

How to build digikam for dummies

In spite of my very little computer (especially ubuntu) knowledge, even not knowing what ¨git¨ or ¨PERL¨ means, I managed with support of Gilles to build digikam 2.0.0 beta 6 from git on an amd64 machine running Ubuntu 11.04.

The actually building process toke about an hour on a modern computer. It may take much longer on a slower computer. To get the job done it cost me about 6 hours, mostly because I ran several times into some trouble, which will most likely happen to you to.

In my case I was not succesfull berfore I removed: libkexiv2-10, libkface-1 and libkmap-1. It will also unistall digikam2 and showfoto and kipi-plugins2 etc. It removed several other stuff as well, I decided to let it happen and to take care of that later. You can always give it a try without removing this stuff.

My installation has ended up with all albums reported as zero images and nothing displayed.

I wonder what happens if someone else give it a try.

And remember: this is beta software, not meant for production but for testing purposes.

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If git is not already installed, install git:

open console

type:

sudo apt-get install git

if done:

type:

git clone http://anongit.kde.org/digikam-software-compilation

If all went succesfull, you can now find the directorie:

/home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation

go in console to ¨your_user_dir¨

type:

cd digikam-software-compilation

if you type:

ls

you will see in this dir a document called ¨download-repos¨ , this is a runnable PERL script.

Type:

sudo perl download-repos

Now the git is cloned to your local dir: /home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation

wait while downloading

If cmake is not installed, now type:

sudo apt-get install cmake

if done type:

cmake digikam-software-compilation

No it may complain about missing stuff. Try to install it from synaptic or in any other way and retry

cmake untill succesfull

now run:

make

if done run:

sudo make install

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good luck

Rinus

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

please make a patch against this file from git :

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/digikam/digikam-software-compilation/repository/revisions/master/entry/README

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

2011/5/18 sleepless <[hidden email]>:

> How to build digikam for dummies
>
> In spite of my very little computer (especially ubuntu) knowledge, even not
> knowing what ¨git¨ or ¨PERL¨ means, I managed with support of Gilles to
> build digikam 2.0.0 beta 6 from git on an amd64 machine running Ubuntu
> 11.04.
>
> The actually building process toke about an hour on a modern computer. It
> may take much longer on a slower computer. To get the job done it cost me
> about 6 hours, mostly because I ran several times into some trouble, which
> will most likely happen to you to.
>
> In my case I was not succesfull berfore I removed: libkexiv2-10, libkface-1
> and libkmap-1. It will also unistall digikam2 and showfoto and kipi-plugins2
> etc. It removed several other stuff as well, I decided to let it happen and
> to take care of that later. You can always give it a try without removing
> this stuff.
>
> My installation has ended up with all albums reported as zero images and
> nothing displayed.
>
> I wonder what happens if someone else give it a try.
>
> And remember: this is beta software, not meant for production but for
> testing purposes.
>
> ##############################################################START
> If git is not already installed, install git:
>
> open console
>
> type:
>
> sudo apt-get install git
>
> if done:
>
> type:
>
> git clone http://anongit.kde.org/digikam-software-compilation
>
> If all went succesfull, you can now find the directorie:
>
> /home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation
>
> go in console to ¨your_user_dir¨
>
> type:
>
> cd digikam-software-compilation
>
> if you type:
>
> ls
>
> you will see in this dir a document called ¨download-repos¨ , this is a
> runnable PERL script.
>
> Type:
>
> sudo perl download-repos
>
> Now the git is cloned to your local dir:
> /home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation
>
> wait while downloading
>
> If cmake is not installed, now type:
>
> sudo apt-get install cmake
>
> if done type:
>
> cmake digikam-software-compilation
>
> No it may complain about missing stuff. Try to install it from synaptic or
> in any other way and retry
>
> cmake untill succesfull
>
> now run:
>
> make
>
> if done run:
>
> sudo make install
>
> ###################################################################END
>
> good luck
>
> Rinus
>
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>
>

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