[Digikam-users] Copying a patched/modified digikam to another machine -?possible/how?

[Andi Clemens]

Well in the case of old / missing libraries you need to build even more 
packages, because they will not be available on the new system and the 
digikam package installation will fail (or at least digikam will not start).

You could be risky and analyze what files have been copied while compiling 
digikam / libs / kipi etc.
Rsync / copy those files to the new machine :-)
Actually this should work quite easy: use rsync to copy the whole KDE folder 
to the other machine (do a backup first of course). I know that I managed 
this to work on archlinux as I moved to another laptop, but I don't know if 
Ubuntu is happy with this solution...

Andi

On Thursday 11 December 2008 22:24:32 Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:34:43PM +0100, Andi Clemens wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 December 2008 21:27:11 Chris G wrote:
> > > I want to copy my slightly modified version of digikam 0.9.5 beta to
> > > another machine.  Is there any way to do this except by rebuilding the
> > > whole thing again on the other machine?  The machine is running the
> > > same Linux distribution (xubuntu 8.10).
> >
> > You can build an Ubuntu package out of the source (I do this here for
> > archlinux) and install the package on the other machine.
> > There should be enough information on how to do this at ubuntuforums.org.
> >
> > But I'm sure it will be faster (if you never built a package yourself) if
> > you just compile on the other machine again.
>
> OK, I thought as much!  :-(
>
> It's just that it was a fair amount of hassle getting all the required
> updated libraries for 0.9.5 beta before it would compile.