How to compile Digikam?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Patrick,

All is explained in this web page :

https://www.digikam.org/download/git/

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 23 oct. 2026 à 19:13, Patrick Gerlier <page74010-dgkm at yahoo.com> a
écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> One of my Digikam DB has been corrupted and causes Digikam to seg-fault on
> open.
>
> I want to track down the cause. I suspect one of the DB records has a
> field with an invalid value which sends Digikam in limbo when it tries to
> interpret it.
>
> To check the DB is still globally in good shape, I have written a small
> Django app to display pictures with date, title and comment (this is the
> limit of my understanding of the DB schema). Everything appears on screen
> as expected. So the problem may be in the flags (they follow a complex
> hierarchical tree structure).
>
> The simplest fix technique would be to recreate the DB from scratch, but
> it contains ~10k pictures with some comments coming from various other
> people, comments I don't remember in all details. And 10k is too much for
> me.
>
> Therefore I want to trace Digikam (valgrind or other utility) to identify
> which record is causing the trouble.
>
> I have downloaded the source tarball.But instruction to compile are not
> that clear. I launched *bootstrap.linux* and I bump into dependency
> issues.
>
> 1- what are the needed (library) packages to install?
>
> 2- what is the official compiling procedure? (in other words, how to boot
> cmake?)
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
>
> Patrick
>
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