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Hi to All and in this case especially to those who want to build
their own digikam 2.0.0-rc (rc stands for release candidate, meaning
it is almost final) and have not been confident with linux,
programming, building etc etc.<br>
<br>
First off all a big THANK and hurray for the people who did it again
and brought this digiKam release to us!<br>
<br>
Yesterday I have been trying to build from git (git is the place
where the source code is stored where the programmers are working
on).<br>
Alas I never came any further than 3%. Confronted with
incomprehencable messages en unsolvable conflicts. (I myself belong
still to the ignorends)<br>
<br>
After all I wonder if it´s only me or maybe the makefiles have been
not enough up to date? But never mind, that was yesterday.<br>
<br>
There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Gilles anounced
yesterday the release of the tarball version, and I was not me if I
did not give a try.<br>
<br>
And miraculously it build flawless, some comprehensible messages
about dependencies hence easely solved.<br>
<br>
Since I can, you can probably too. Needed: At least one half of a
day, certainly if it is your first try. A fair amount of
persistence. I will be around a few more days and keep one eye on
the mail until upcoming saterday and help as far as I am capable.<br>
<br>
If someone detects an error in the description, please let me know
asap!<br>
<br>
Have a nice day,<br>
<br>
Rinus<br>
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START BUILDING<br>
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Here is your tarball (compressed archive of source code)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam/2.0.0-rc/digikam-2.0.0-rc.tar.bz2/download">http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam/2.0.0-rc/digikam-2.0.0-rc.tar.bz2/download</a><br>
<br>
If it´s downloaded, extract it your user dir (somthing like
home/my_user_dir)<br>
<br>
Open a terminal window and go to the place where the software has
been extracted.<br>
If you type pwd at the prompt, you will see where you are, probably
in home/my_user_dir<br>
type cd digikam-2.0.0-rc<br>
<br>
now make a directory to put your build files in<br>
type mkdir build<br>
cd build<br>
<br>
if you do pwd (present working directory)<br>
you see somthing like<br>
/home/my_user_dir/digikam-2.0.0-rc/build<br>
<br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If cmake is not installed, now type:<br>
sudo apt-get install cmake </p>
<br>
Now let cmake do it´s work<br>
<code></code>cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` .. <br>
<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Most likely it will complain about
missing stuff.
Try to install it from synaptic or in any other way and retry
cmake untill succesfull.</p>
If all went successful<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">now run:<br>
make</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">if done run:<br>
sudo make install<br>
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DONE!<br>
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