[Digikam-users] Thanks for the rc release Building digiKam for dummies continued

[sleepless]

Hi to All and in this case especially to those who want to build their 
own digikam 2.0.0-rc (rc stands for release candidate, meaning it is 
almost final) and have not been confident with linux, programming, 
building etc etc.

First off all a big THANK and hurray for the people who did it again and 
brought this digiKam release to us!

Yesterday I have been trying to build from git (git is the place where 
the source code is stored where the programmers are working on).
Alas I never came any further than 3%. Confronted with incomprehencable 
messages en unsolvable conflicts. (I myself belong still to the ignorends)

After all I wonder if it´s only me or maybe the makefiles have been not 
enough up to date? But never mind, that was yesterday.

There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Gilles anounced 
yesterday the release of the tarball version, and I was not me if I did 
not give a try.

And miraculously it build flawless, some comprehensible messages about 
dependencies hence easely solved.

Since I can, you can probably too. Needed: At least one half of a day, 
certainly if it is your first try. A fair amount of persistence. I will 
be around a few more days and keep one eye on the mail until upcoming 
saterday and help as far as I am capable.

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

Have a nice day,

Rinus

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START BUILDING
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Here is your tarball (compressed archive of source code)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam/2.0.0-rc/digikam-2.0.0-rc.tar.bz2/download

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.
If you type pwd at the prompt, you will see where you are, probably in 
home/my_user_dir
type cd digikam-2.0.0-rc

now make a directory to put your build files in
type mkdir build
cd build

if you do pwd (present working directory)
you see somthing like
/home/my_user_dir/digikam-2.0.0-rc/build

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` ..

Most likely it will complain about missing stuff. Try to install it from 
synaptic or in any other way and retry cmake untill succesfull.

If all went successful

now run:
make

if done run:
sudo make install
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DONE!
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