<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Chiz Dakin <<a href="mailto:peakimages@googlemail.com">peakimages@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Just been trying to install <span>digiKam</span> on my new <span>eeepc</span>, and
discovered that the package version is only 0.8.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I see that the latest stable
version is 0.93, but when I try to install it following the standard <span>tarball</span> destructions on your website, it whinges that there
isn't a valid C compiler. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A Digital Asset Manager is
the one critical app that isn't on the <span>eeepc</span> as
standard, and that I need to have (for viewing canon 5D and G9 raw files to
decide which are the keepers, to add <span>iptc</span> data (<span>eg</span> captions, keywords, copyright info) and to rename the
keepers) for working away from the studio. As it stands v 0.8 of <span>digiKam</span> doesn't have enough functionality, but it
looks like v 0.9x should have much of the missing IPTC/batch keyword tagging I need…
but if I can't get it to install, then I may be forced into going down
the XP install to get a wider choice of DAM software that can provide this functionality.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please save me from <span>XPing</span> my <span>eee</span>! I've only
been using <span>linux</span> since getting the <span>eeepc</span> a couple of days ago, but would like to keep it
running <span>linux</span> rather than <span>windoze</span>
if possible</span></font><font face="Wingdings"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>J</span></span></font><span></span></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote></div>Hello,<br><br>The default distribution that is installed on the EeePC is called Xandros. You are correct, they have an older version of digikam in their repository. There are a few community built distributions that can be installed on the EeePC. They are more up to date and have more recent versions of digikam in their repositories. I have not done this myself yet and wouldn't necessarily recommend that procedure to some unfamiliar with GNU/Linux in general.<br>
<br>However, if you want to learn take a look at this link:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home">http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home</a><br><br>This was done specifically for the 701 so I don't know how it would relate to newer model EeePcs <br>
<br>- Gerry<br>