[Digikam-users] How to build digikam for dummies

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How to build digikam for dummies



In spite of my very little computer (especially ubuntu) knowledge, even 
not knowing what ¨git¨ or ¨PERL¨ means, I managed with support of Gilles 
to build digikam 2.0.0 beta 6 from git on an amd64 machine running 
Ubuntu 11.04.


The actually building process toke about an hour on a modern computer. 
It may take much longer on a slower computer. To get the job done it 
cost me about 6 hours, mostly because I ran several times into some 
trouble, which will most likely happen to you to.


In my case I was not succesfull berfore I removed: libkexiv2-10, 
libkface-1 and libkmap-1. It will also unistall digikam2 and showfoto 
and kipi-plugins2 etc. It removed several other stuff as well, I decided 
to let it happen and to take care of that later. You can always give it 
a try without removing this stuff.


_My installation has ended up with all albums reported as zero images 
and nothing displayed._

_I wonder what happens if someone else give it a try._


And remember: this is beta software, not meant for production but for 
testing purposes.


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If git is not already installed, install git:

open console

type:

sudo apt-get install git


if done:

type:

git clone http://anongit.kde.org/digikam-software-compilation


If all went succesfull, you can now find the directorie:

/home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation


go in console to ¨your_user_dir¨

type:

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.


Type:

sudo perl download-repos


Now the git is cloned to your local dir: 
/home/¨your_user_dir¨/digikam-software-compilation


wait while downloading


If cmake is not installed, now type:

sudo apt-get install cmake


if done type:

cmake digikam-software-compilation


No it may complain about missing stuff. Try to install it from synaptic 
or in any other way and retry

cmake untill succesfull


now run:

make


if done run:

sudo make install


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good luck

Rinus

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