[Digikam-users] NEW 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

[sleepless]

  Building digiKam for dummies on Ubuntu, updated according
the latest, input, feedback and knowledge about the current
process per august 24, 2011

  Folowing this guidlines I was able to build flawless on two
completely different computers.
  Since I can, you can probably too. Needed: At least one half
of a day, certainly if it is your first try, and might take
even longer at a slow computer. A fair amount of persistence
is needed too. However if nothing went wrong the whole
process might be completed within an hour.

  If someone detects an error in the description, please let
me know asap!

  Good luck!

  Rinus

  Probably it is a good practice to deinstall former digikam
installation.

If you want latest digikam from git goto ¨START DOWNLOADING
FROM GIT¨ else start here.
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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:
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