[Digikam-users] Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running Windows have a look at this.

[sleepless]

Op 01-09-11 16:18, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef:
> You  don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in the
> list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used Digikam
> with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam everywhere
> with you and run it on any PC.
>
> Marie-Noëlle
On certain occasions this could be useful to me. I can not find in my 
mailbox and the archives appear hardly searchible

Could I consider the text shown beneath that has been brought up by 
google as your final text?
If so could it be improved in the sense that it becomes reproducable by 
almost anyone regardles which platform they prefer?.
I myself may not be the smartest person around but I don´t think I could 
do with this text.

Rinus

Anyway, I ended up with a *USB*-key on which I've created 2 partitions 
with Gparted: - one fat32 of about 2Gio for the *Live*-Fedora system - 
the remaining part formatted in ext4, being available for data.

The .iso *Live* system image is created on the key with the following 
command: # livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 64 
<name-of-your-iso-file-system> <destination-unmounted-device> This 
setting provides 64Mb of persistent /home for the liveuser, that allows 
to keep all the settings and customization (for Gnome, *Digikam*, etc.) 
from one session to the other.

The first time I boot from the key, I launch *Digikam* and set up the 
database and first collection on the 'data' partition of the *USB*-key; 
the key is then ready tgo be used by an 'end-user'.

This seems to work pretty well, but hasn't been used in production yet. 
And keep in mind this *USB*-based *Digikam* will be used only for little 
local collections for quite a short time, as they will be centralized 
periodically onto a central database on disk. My purpose here was to 
provide 10 to 15 team members scattered 'on the field' with a system 
ready to use so they can upload their own pictures and do some tagging 
before transferring their data to the team manager every couple of weeks.

This will be used in the 'real life' pretty soon. I'll let you know if I 
have to change or adapt something.

Marie-Noëlle



> 2011/9/1 sleepless<sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>:
>> Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running
>> Windows have a look at this.
>>
>> Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot
>> system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Download from here:
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>>
>> Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download
>>
>> double click on the downloaded file to install
>>
>> Install Ubuntu in your VB
>>
>> Open the VB Manager
>>
>> Open Setting
>>
>> Open Shared Folders
>>
>> click the plus sign
>>
>> choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu
>>
>> give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV
>>
>> select auto mount
>>
>> start Ubuntu
>>
>> Select in the upper menubar from VB devices
>>
>> Select install host additions
>>
>> Follow the instructions
>>
>> If done shut down Ubuntu
>>
>> Shut down Virtual Box
>>
>> Open the Virtual Box again
>>
>> Select The Ubuntu image
>>
>> click on the green arrow to start
>>
>> Go in your Ubuntu application menu
>>
>> look for Terminal and open it
>>
>> Once in terminal type:
>>
>> cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed to
>> backward slashes)
>>
>> cd mnt
>>
>> sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV
>>
>> sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV
>>
>> Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes)
>>
>> click filesystem
>> click mnt
>> click MY_WIN_DRV
>>
>> There is all your stuff from your windows drive.
>>
>> (Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in
>> windows too, if you go there.)
>>
>> Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center
>>
>> type in search field: digiKam or showFoto
>>
>> select and install.
>>
>> If you want to try a newer version goto
>> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621
>>
>> for further details.
>>
>> If problems occur, ask the list for help.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Rinus
>>
>> If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual installation
>> of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice.
>> I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing the
>> real install. That causes the omission in this how to.
>>
>>
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