[Digikam-users] Re: howto build on debian

[Philipp Frauenfelder]

Hi John

Am 27.02.2011 15:11, schrieb John Bestevaar:
> As a humble user i have the same problem. I just dont know enough about
> the workings of computers to make sense of programmer speak sufficient
> to accurately follow instructions.

Most of the time, somebody else has already done it...

http://packages.debian.org/digikam shows that in experimental, i386 
packages are available. Today, you typically run the amd64 arch. Check

$ arch
x86_64

to verify this. If so, you cannot download from Debian experimental 
directly. I had the same problem and rebuilt the amd64 packages from the 
Debian sources. You can find the necessary packages here:

http://people.debian.org/~pfrauenf/

Download both packages and install them using dpkg -i --force-depends. 
You also need packages from experimental and qt-kde. Add these lines to 
your sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main
deb http://debian.ethz.ch/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

The dpkg command above rendered your packages a little bit broken. Now 
use 'aptitude install -f -t experimental' to fix these again. I had to 
manually upgrade marble to 4.5 as well before digikam started without 
segfault.

> On 27/02/11 13:45, Dan McDaniel wrote:
>> I've tired of waiting for Debian unstable (sid) to upgrade digikam. It's
>> still using 1.2.0. So I want to build 1.8.0 from the tarball, but I
>> can't find any good instructions. I tried using those on digikam.org,
>> but they are somewhat sparse.
>>
>> Can anyone point me to a good set of instructions?

Btw, I used pbuilder to build the packages.

HTH
Philipp