[Digikam-users] digiKam 1.2.0 released... / Ubuntu installation recommendation

[Bill Yiannakos]

Or, even simpler, add this PPA and update as normal

https://launchpad.net/~fboucault/+archive/ppa

:-)

Vasilis Yiannakos
www.yiannakos.gr <http://www.yiannakos.gr>
billyiannakos (at) gmail.com

On 03/30/2010 01:05 PM, Vlado Plaga wrote:
> This is the way I installed digiKam 1.2 in Ubuntu 10.04 (and it should
> also work in Ubuntu 9.10, or a recent Debian):
>
> 1. create a temporary directory
> 2. download digikam-1.2.0.tar.bz2 to this directory
> 3. also download the Debian diff for digiKam from unstable[1]:
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/digikam/digikam_1.1.0-1.diff.gz
> 4. unpack digikam and unzip the diff:
>    # tar xjf digikam-1.2.0.tar.bz2
>    # gunzip digikam_1.1.0-1.diff.gz
> 5. change to the now-created directory: # cd digikam-1.2.0
> 6. # patch -p1<  ../digikam_1.1.0-1.diff
> 7. create Debian packages of digiKam and showFoto:
>    # chmod +x debian/rules
>    # fakeroot debian/rules binary
>
> On my machine this created the following three packages:
> digikam_1.1.0-1_powerpc.deb
> digikam-dbg_1.1.0-1_powerpc.deb
> showfoto_1.1.0-1_powerpc.deb
>
> Don't be confused by the file names, the packages really contain
> digiKam 1.2! Normally you would not need the "digikam-dbg" (debug)
> package. Install the packages with "dpkg -i" or your preferred method.
>
> The advantage of using Debian packages (instead of just installing
> digiKam manually alongside an existing KDE) is that you don't interfere
> with your package manager and can even update digiKam later on with
> distribution packages. Unfortunately digiKam cannot be installed
> properly in /usr/local, if things haven't changed recently.
>
> Regards,
> Vlado
>
> [1] You can check http://packages.debian.org/sid/digikam and maybe
> already get the diff for the official 1.2 package
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