[Digikam-users] FINAL? UPDATE: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! B U I L D I N G D I G I K A M F O R D U M M I E S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on Ubuntu

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  START DOWNLOADING TARBALL
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  Here is your tarball (compressed archive of source code
from the latest official released version)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam


  If it´s downloaded, extract it your user dir (somthing like
       home/my_user_dir)

  Open a terminal window and go to the place where the software
has been extracted. (let´s assume it has been extracted to
home/my_user_dir/digikam-software-compilation)
  If you type pwd at the prompt, you will see where you are,
probably in home/my_user_dir
  type cd digikam-software-compilation

NOTA BENE: Go from here to the start building section

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  START DOWNLOADING GIT
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  From git you get the latest source code currently worked on
by the programmers. Although you have latest updates and
bugfixes, you may also have a newly introduced bug, in fact
it is for testing purposes, not officially released yet.

  If git is not already installed, install git:
install from synaptec or:
open console
type:
sudo apt-get install git

  To get the source code on your computer:
cd ~ : to go to your home dir
¨git clone git://anongit.kde.org/digikam-software-compilation
digikam-software-compilation¨

  Now you havw a directory digikam-software-compilation
go there
cd digikam-software-compilation

  if you type:
ls
  you will see in this dir a document called ¨download-repos¨,
this is a runnable PERL script.

  If perl not already is installed, install it from synaptec
or command line.

  Now type:
sudo perl download-repos
  Now the git is cloned to your local dir:
/home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation

wait while downloading



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  START BUILDING
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  now make a directory to put your build files in
type mkdir build
go there by typing:
cd build

  if you do pwd (present working directory)
you see somthing like
/home/my_user_dir/digikam-software-compilation/build

  Make sure the(pre)compiler is installed named ¨gcc¨ and
¨cpp¨ the same for ¨make¨ and ¨cmake¨. You can install it
from package manager like synaptec or from command line.

  If cmake is not installed, now type:
sudo apt-get install cmake
  Now let cmake do it´s work
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=
`kde4-config --prefix` ..
(mind the ¨space dot dot¨ at the end) and make sure NOT to
use ¨sudo¨ in front of ¨cmake¨.


  Most likely it will complain about missing stuff. like
libkexiv2-dev, libkipi-dev, libkdcraw-dev, etc.
Try to install it from synaptic or in any other way and
retry cmake untill succesful.


  If all went successful
now run:
make

  if done run:
sudo make install
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  DONE!
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