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Salut Gilles. Thank you very much for your almost immediate response!<BR>
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Yes, I used a precompiled version via <A HREF="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/digikam/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/digikam/ubuntu</A> . I had no choice because the entire building-from-scratch exercise is very foreign to me. This is the second component of my very frustrating dilemma: I've no idea how to roll my own package! So, while I certainly appreciate your kind assistance thus far Gilles, what I really need is some detailed step-by-step guidance for what many in this forum would find to be a ridiculously simple thing to do. Many thanks in advance!<BR>
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On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 07:04 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
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You want mean exiv2 0.20 or 0.21.
To use these version in digiKam, you need to recompile and install
libkexiv2, the KDE/Qt interface of Exiv2 used by digiKam.
After that, digiKam and kipi-plugins need to be recompiled too.
If you use precompiled packages, try to update libkexiv2 as well.
After go to Help/Components Info from digiKam to see which version is
used in background.
Gilles Caulier
2010/12/18 Hevï Guy <<A HREF="mailto:heviiguy@gmail.com">heviiguy@gmail.com</A>>:
> Hello everybody. Please pardon my ignorance but, I'm much more of a
> photographer than a Linux wizard...
>
> Like many others, I've been plagued by the problem of slowwwwwwww... photo
> imports. Yes, I am a proud Nikon D90 owner. I understand that exiv2 was the
> culprit and I also know that version 2 has been developed to overcome the
> problem. This is good. What's not good is that I have absolutely no idea
> whatsoever about how to take advantage of this new file; How do I
> incorporate it into my version of DigiKam (1.6.0) running on Ubuntu 10.10???
>
> If anybody can lead me through the painful process (with many noob-necessary
> details) I would be very appreciative.
>
> Ciao y'all.
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