Installing Digikam on Mac OS X 10.6.8
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Installing Digikam on Mac OS X 10.6.8
 
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Hello. I am on my second attempt at installing Digikam on Snow Leopard. I have limited experience with Ubuntu and no experience with MacPorts, sudo, packages, dbus, and all the other joys of Linux. I don't even know how to run Digikam from the Terminal. I've read the instructions for installation on the Digikam site and read through the Digikam support posts and the MacPorts support posts when I got error messages about libraries that didn't install and lists that wouldn't load. I've done a lot of copying and pasting and blind experimentation. Though I enjoy learning and would like to understand Unix/Linux/MacPorts better I don't want to spend weeks doing that just to install and run Digikam. At this point I've gotten as far as being able to click on the Digikam
icon at Applications/MacPorts/KDE4. The icon shows up on the Dock, bounces, and stops. What do I do next? How do I determine what I'm missing to complete a successful installation? Sergio Minero _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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You don't give us much information. I am assuming you got it to compile and install since you say that digikam lives in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4. If so, then open a terminal an execute /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/digikam.app/Contents/MacOS/digikam That should give you some output that might shed light what's going on with your installation. - b On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Sergio Minero II wrote:
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Re: Installing Digikam on Mac OS X 10.6.8
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Hi - I recall having some issues with actually running Digikam under
MacPorts, once all the dependencies were finally installed. I have forgotten just what the details were but it might have been similar symptoms to yours. In my case it was because I'd not spotted the instructions that will have flashed by as part of the 'dbus' install, which needs a couple commands to be issued to start this process - in a shell, type 'port notes dbus' which should show you the correct two commands to be run on your own install. Mine follows - good luck! Phil --------- $ port notes dbus Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate dbus has the following notes: ############################################################################ # Startup items have been generated that will aid in # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled # by default. Execute the following command to start them, # and to cause them to launch at startup: # # sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist ############################################################################ On 28 July 2011 18:34, Sergio Minero II <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hello. I am on my second attempt at installing Digikam on Snow Leopard. I > have limited experience with Ubuntu and no experience with MacPorts, sudo, > packages, dbus, and all the other joys of Linux. I don't even know how to > run Digikam from the Terminal. I've read the instructions for installation > on the Digikam site and read through the Digikam support posts and the > MacPorts support posts when I got error messages about libraries that didn't > install and lists that wouldn't load. I've done a lot of copying and > pasting and blind experimentation. Though I enjoy learning and would like > to understand Unix/Linux/MacPorts better I don't want to spend weeks doing > that just to install and run Digikam. > At this point I've gotten as far as being able to click on the Digikam icon > at Applications/MacPorts/KDE4. The icon shows up on the Dock, bounces, and > stops. What do I do next? How do I determine what I'm missing to complete > a successful installation? > > Sergio Minero > > _______________________________________________ > 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 |
Re: Installing Digikam on Mac OS X 10.6.8
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In reply to this post by Sergio Minero II
Assuming you've followed the dbus instructions I found the only way I could get digikam to run up properly was to run kdeinit4.app first ("open -a kdeinit4" from Terminal or find it in your Applications folder). Then everything worked for me.
Tim On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Sergio Minero II <[hidden email]> wrote:
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