[Digikam-users] Digikam packaged for MacOS (dmg or alike)

[J Albrecht]

Angus, don’t give up yet! If you can’t get it going via Macports, install VirtualBox, set up your favourite Distro it and then simply install Digikam from the repo.



On 09 May 2014, at 20:05, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using the Macports is what I did and took for hours. Not looking
> forward to do it again in the future...
> I think that, under these circumstances, stating that Digikam is
> available for MacOS is
> a bit misleading. For 99% of Mac users, Digikam is not really
> available. The answer to
> "Is Digikam available for Mac OSX?" should be "Not without hours of
> work on the installation"
> I regret it, many people would use Digikam on Mac if a dmg or pkg
> based installation was available.
> 
> Agus
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:28 PM, J Albrecht <heviiguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ooops!  Sorry: I just realised that I had indeed installed it via Macports. But hey, considering the difficulties and utter frustration that I had faced when I first tried to install Digikam on Ubuntu a couple of years ago, this was a piece of cake!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 09 May 2014, at 14:07, J Albrecht <heviiguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Can’t recall where I had picked it up from but, I’m running a copy of Digikam 3.5 beta from a dmg file. Seems to work without any problems under Mavericks 10.9 on my MBPr
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 09 May 2014, at 13:13, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> hi,
>>>> 
>>>> 2014-05-09 12:22 GMT+02:00 Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Is there any binary release of Digikam packaged for MacOSX as a dmg
>>>>> file (or alike) foreseen?
>>>> 
>>>> no
>>>> 
>>>>> Anybody working on this?
>>>> 
>>>> nobody
>>>> 
>>>>> I find the suggested Macports installation too involved for the
>>>>> average Mac user.
>>>> 
>>>> Well, i would to found somebody able to do it. It's not a simple task
>>>> that could be delegate to a student for ex.
>>>> 
>>>> Macports provide also a way to make a dmg from a fresh install, but
>>>> last time that i do it, compilation cannot be completed...
>>>> 
>>>> best
>>>> 
>>>> Gilles Caulier
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