[Digikam-users] Installing Digikam from SVN

[Dotan Cohen]

On 08/03/2008, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de> wrote:
>
> Geoff, thanks a lot for the detailed description, I am sure
>  it will be helpfull to others as well.
>
>  Just one additional comment:
>  Personally I prefer to install additional stuff
>  to a separate place, which is accessible for the normal user
>  (i.e. no root required). This ensures, that one does not
>  accidentally screw the system (or the system screws
>  the installation ;-). Moreover, this allows
>  to have several versions available at the same time
>  (eg one for testing current svn and another released one
>  for production; though one has to say that svn is usually
>  better than the released version due the bug fixes...)
>
>  For doing this, the steps are (in script form ;-),
>  at http://www.digikam.org/?q=download/svn
>  under "Install digiKam in your Home Directory".
>  Essentially, one has to use
>    ./configure --prefix=$DIGIKAMDEST
>  in each configure step *and* set the environment
>  variables, see the compile_digikam.sh script.
>  Of course, this is a bit more complicated, but at least
>  I wanted to mention it ... ;-)

I'm not setting the --prefix flag, as I don't mind the installation
being system-wide. Our real use of Digikam is on the desktop, but I'm
doing the SVN bug-hunting on the laptop.

Dotan Cohen

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