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

[Dmitri Popov]

Excellent job, Rinus! Feel free to submit this as a tip: http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/submit-a-digikam-tip-win-a-zareason-teo-pro-netbook/

Best,
Dmitri
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:52 AM
Subject: [Digikam-users] Thanks for the rc release Building digiKam for dummies continued


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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