[KPhotoAlbum] Image-file to use KPA 3.0.2 on Knoppix (5.2) available

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

May I suggest you put in the wiki.

Cheers
Jesper.

On Saturday 21 July 2007, Martin Jost wrote:
| Hello,
|
| whenever I carry some of my photos on CDs to friends of mine, I wish I
| could use KPA to pick specific photos. Unfortunately most of my friends
| use windows, so KPA won't work there. While Linux live-CDs (like
| knoppix) make it possible to boot Linux from CD/DVD, I know of no
| version containing KPA.
|
| The following (rather long) posting describes a way to have KPA
| available using knoppix and how to create it yourself, to adapt it to
| other live-CD/DVD systems.
|
| Newer knoppix have a feature to create a image file (e.g. on memory
| stick) and mount this "on top" of the CD/DVD image. (UnionFS) This makes
| it possible to add additional software to the packages coming with the
| CD/DVD. (Without the need to install anything on the computer knoppix
| runs on)
|
| I have created a image for knoppix (5.2) containing KPA 3.0.2 and the
| missing dependencies. I used the knoppix DVD which came with
| german CT magazine 7/2007. I hope it also works for other versions as well.
|
| Usage:
| 1.
| Get the (compressed) image from my homepage:
| http://www.majo.name/knoppix.img.bz2
| (KPA maintainers: feel free to put this on the KPA pages, if you like;
| same thing for the (possibly edited ;-) description here)
|
| 2.
| uncompress the image
|
| > bunzip2 knoppix.img.bz2
|
| 3.
| copy the resulting image-file to the root-directory of one partition
| available to knoppix later on. (I put it on my memory stick)
| Knoppix searches all root directories of all partitions it finds on boot
| for a file named knoppix.img)
|
| 4.
| Boot from the Knoppix CD/DVD
|
| 5.
| On boot, knoppix will ask whether to mount the image it found. The
| default is *not* to mount it, so you most agree to this.
| (The mounting is a potential security risk, because you now rely on the
| contents not being malicious; If you want to have a look "inside" the
| image file, have a look at "do-it-sourself" later on)
|
| 6.
| After log in, you now can start KPA from the command line. Because it is
| installed as /usr/bin/kphotoalbum, it should be on the path.
|
| 7.
| Enjoy !
| There should be all features present (EXIF-DB, kipi-plugins,
| translations, video) *except* the video preview; sorry I didn't find,
| what it takes to get this to work. All tips welcome.
|
| Do-it-yourself
|
| 1. How to look "inside" the image
| (Assuming here, /tmpmnt is a directory)
|
| > sudo mount -o loop -t ext2 knoppix.img  /tmpmnt
|
| This will mount the image on /tmpmnt
| You now can look inside the image.
| You will find dirs like /etc/network/if-up.d/ (and many more)
| beside the obvious KPA files.
| These results from activities of Knoppix, which changed these files, so
| they ended up in the image too. I tried to get rid of these, but this
| always destroyed the image. (Tips here also welcome)
|
| 2. Creating your own image file from scratch
|
| a. get the needed files
| I installed mostly from source, because I already had those available.
| Get the files and save it on a partition later available on knoppix.
| What you need may differ, depending on the version you are using and if
| you are using a CD or DVD version. I ssume that you are familiar with
| the usual way to compile and install configure-based open source SW.
|
| sqlite-2.8.16
| (http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-2.8.16.tar.gz)
|
| libqt3-mt-sqlite_3.3.7-4_i386.deb
| (http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libqt3-mt-sqlite)
|
| For the following see the KPA homepage
| exiv2-0.12
| libkexif-0.2.5
| libkexiv2-0.1.1
| libkipi-0.1.5
| kipi-plugins-0.1.3
| kphotoalbum-3.0.2
|
| b. Create a image file
| (The exact steps depend on your Knoppix version. My description here is
| based on Knoppix 5.2. The titles are back-translated from my German
| version) - Boot the knoppix CD/DVD
| - On the KDE desktop click the penguin icon on the KDE bar (second left
|   after the K-icon)
| - Choose "Configuration/Install permanent Knoppix-image"
| - Confirm message
| - Choose the partition, the image will be created on
| - Answer the question for encryption with no.
| - Enter size for the image (you'll need approximately something between
|   60 and 70 Mbyte; so 70 MByte seems good)
| - Note: The image now gets created, but not mounted, until the next
|   reboot.
|
| c. Installing KPA in the image file
| - Reboot the knoppix CD/DVD and confirm the mounting of the image file.
| - Compile and install sqlite
| - Install libqt3-mt-sqlite_3.3.7-4_i386.deb using
|
|   > dpkg -i libqt3-mt-sqlite_3.3.7-4_i386.deb
|
| - Install the remaining packages in the order
|   exiv2-0.12
|   libkexif-0.2.5
|   libkexiv2-0.1.1
|   libkipi-0.1.5
|   kipi-plugins-0.1.3
|   kphotoalbum-3.0.2
| - Now KPA should be working and installed in the image.
|   (You might need additional packages, depending on your version)
|   Next time just the image file is needed.
|
| Enjoy
|
| Martin



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