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Thank-you everybody, for not taking too much offense at my rant. I can see where "Newbie Fatigue" can get quite frustrating for those of you who find this to be a second nature piece of cake. Yes, it will probably do us good to experience similar wounds as the experts had when they jumped through the same flaming barbed wire hoops . The problem for many of us Newbs is that because we don't come from the same Computer World, our wounds can be quite fatal since we don't even know which hoops to jump through. If we're lucky enough we can continue to scour the internet, pickling up bits and pieces of instructions, here and there. Unfortunately, many times, the information is conflicting and we end up in a pit somewhere, unable to climb out and left calling for help.<BR>
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My problem during my most-recent journey was finding all of the right dependencies. The instructions on the digiKam site were not very clear on this. Yes, links to other relevant pages and text files were there, but there wasn't a single source where all of this information was then aggregated for final consumption. This left me guessing at what I had to do next. Even if some of the dependencies that I uncovered were correct versions, I had no idea where to install them. I think that rather than relating all of the steps along the often-tortuous path that we've taken before finally falling into the pit, it would be so much easier if, right from the start, we had a concise "master map" to follow. Then, if we do something stupid, it would probably be much less frustrating (!) for those volunteers who have successfully navigated these pitfalls to pull us through the rest of the way.<BR>
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I think that I've finally found such a detailed map: <TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c"><A HREF="http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download/SvnAlongStable">http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download/SvnAlongStable</A></FONT></TT> (thank you very much, Mike Hansen!). Since this is Ubuntu-specific rather than the Fedora instructions graciously provided earlier by Christian (thanks again Christian!), I should be able follow it a little easier. I'll go along, step-by-step, and see where it takes me. Hopefully I won't have to bother you all again. <BR>
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* I now understand that a big part of the problem is Ubuntu's glacial pace at providing updated packages. I also understand that this is why it's necessary to "roll one's own" from a number of individual sources. What I don't understand is why everybody is forced to do this, thus reinventing the wheel. Why, along with the source files, isn't there an option to simply download and install a single tarball with everything already included? Yeah, it's a weanie desire not to want to slog through the quagmire that the initial inventor traversed but, it sure would make life much simpler <IMG SRC="cid:1292777610.2691.68.camel@hevii-NtBk-1" ALIGN="middle" ALT=";-)" BORDER="0"><BR>
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Happy Holidays!
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