[Digikam-users] newbie problem

[Gilles Caulier]

Take a look in README file to see how to compile digiKam. You use an old way...

Gilles Caulier

2009/7/25 Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il>:
> I tried to install the latest beta version from a tarball. I went to the
> site (quoted below), and tried to execute them.
>
> Installing a tarball
>
> Installing a tarball will get you the most up-to-date stable version of
> digiKam. But it can happen that you run into all kinds of problems related
> to compiling.
>
> So, if your distribution is running behind a lot, you can install a tarball.
> First you have to download digiKam from one of the sourceforge mirrors. You
> can do that from here
>
> Extract the tarball via tar -xvjf filename.bz2, enter the extracted
> directory and then you need to issue a set of commands. The first command
> requires a parameter, which is the prefix. This will be the base path of the
> installation. If you want to install it mixed with your other software you
> can use the output of kde-config --prefix as a prefix. Else specify the
> installation map you like. In the following, we assume the /usr prefix.
>
> Set of commands to build the tarball:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> su -c "make install"
>
> When going into the extracted directory I get the following output when
> typing ./command:
>
> errol at errol-linux:~$ cd /home/errol/digikam-1.0.0-beta3
> errol at errol-linux:~/digikam-1.0.0-beta3$ ./configure
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>
> Where am I going wrong?
> Errol
>
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