[Digikam-users] Re: howto build on debian

Dan McDaniel dan at dm3.us
Tue Mar 1 22:28:12 GMT 2011


I haven't had time to try this yet, but thanks for the info.

Dan

On Sun 27.Feb.11 15:38, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
>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
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