Refocus: Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running Windows have a look at this.

[Rinus]

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.



Note:
jdd brougt this forward:
/*did you validate the hardware virtual flag in the bios? most modern
computers have it now. */

This is an important thing to do to make your virtualBox run more
smoothly. Look in your bios documentation, how to do it.
If you are on windows, what you are supposed to, if you read this
you may download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/configure-bios.aspx
a tool to check if hardware virtualization is available on your computer.
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[Rinus]

Op 02-09-11 09:29, sleepless schreef:

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.



Note:
jdd brougt this forward:
/*did you validate the hardware virtual flag in the bios? most modern computers have it now. */

This is an important thing to do to make your virtualBox run more smoothly. Look in your bios documentation, how to do it.
If you are on windows, what you are supposed to, if you read this
you may download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/configure-bios.aspx
a tool to check if hardware virtualization is available on your computer.

/*
From this remark from Vlado:

Rinus, in one of your mails from yesterday you ask if I had the
"hardware virtual flag" activated in the BIOS. I think I had to
activate it, so I could run a 64 bit Windows 7 in VirtualBox.

I understand that he doubts if it makes any difference in this case.

*/

/*
New important info brought forward by Paul Verizo

My experience shows Virtual Box to have no glaringly obvious speed differences compared to native.  One reason might be the default RAM allocated in VB is rather small, 300-500kb.  I set all VB installations at 1 GB or better, especially since I want to run a certain graphics program on it.

*/

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[Rinus]

Hi,

This applies only to digikam 2.0.0 running on Ubuntu 11.4, running in
oracle virtual box 4.1.2, running on a windows 7 platform running on an
hp amd64 laptop.

>> Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
>> violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
>> in the opposite direction
> Albert Einstein


Just to make sure I do not talk nonsens here and do not sent people in
to the woods, or swamps I tried a completely new setup with latest
oracle VirtualBox and latest release Ubuntu 11.4 and latest dk from
Phillip´s ppa.
Although the setup goes flawless you can´t do much with it.
There happened weird things trying to mount drives and it was not
possible to work on existing digikam database. Afterall I consider this
not as a workable setup.
(same with the opensuse image from jdd)
Thanks to all who invested energy and time in to this. I discontinue my
work on a how to digikam in Virtual machine.
Unless someone  convinces me that I am wrong, I will not encourage
anyone to go this way.
Just go dual boot. It is simple and it works.

Regards,
Rinus
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