[KPhotoAlbum] Building 4.6.2 for Debian Jessie

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi Matthias,

Sorry for the long delay - I meant to get back to you sooner.

In case you still need help, here's what works on a VM I installed with 
wheezy. Just in case you didn't see it yet, I'll mention the official howto 
for building KPhotoAlbum[1].

Unfortunately, this tutorial hasn't been updated for KPA 4.6, yet. I.e. there 
is no mention of libkgeomap.

So here's what I do to build and install libkgeomap:

INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kde4-config --localprefix)

This is usually the directory ~/.kde and works fine as installation path for 
kde-based programs. There's one catch, though: if you install kphotoalbum 
here, "make install" will overwrite your kphotoalbumui.rc[2] and (more 
importantly) your kphotoalbumrc file.

I'm not sure whether it is possible to install a KDE program outside the KDE 
(local) prefix, but I've always had problems installing to some other 
directory (at least KDE won't find some resource files like the KPhotoAlbum 
handbook or the .desktop files).

Step one: install kgeomap

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/libkgeomap.git
cd libkgeomap
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PREFIX
make && make install

If you encounter any problem in this step or any other, please post the error 
here so we can find a solution.


Step two: install libkface (if you want this,too)

I just noticed that the version of libopencv in wheezy is too old for libkface 
from git master. I'll upgrade my VM to jessie and post this step once I've 
verified it.


Step three: install kphotoalbum.
This should basically work as advertised in [1].

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kphotoalbum.git
cd kphotoalbum
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PREFIX

kgeomap should be found automatically if it is installed in either the KDE 
prefix or the KDE local prefix directory.

make
# make sure to preserve your kphotoalbumrc file:
../script/kpa-backup.sh --backup
make install
../script/kpa-backup.sh --restore

If you have added $INSTALL_PREFIX/bin to your PATH, you should be able to 
start kphotoalbum on the commandline. If it doesn't turn up in your start 
menu, you should check where kphotoalbum installs the .desktop file against 
the output of `kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps`.


I hope this is helpful to you...
  Johannes


[1] https://userbase.kde.org/Building_KPhotoAlbum

[2] kphotoalbumui.rc contains the menu structure, including toolbars. If you 
changed e.g. the toolbars of kphotoalbum, you might not want this file to be 
overwritten. kphotoalbumrc is your KPhotoAlbum config file. You certainly 
don't want this file to be overwritten.



On Friday 25 September 2015 15:48:04 Matthias Heukäufer wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> can I ask you for a brief explanation on how to build KGeoMap in Debian?
> I have run out of ideas trying to build and package KPhotoAlbum in
> Jessie using the digikam libs and sources.
> 
> Fernando:
> Thank you for the link to the cmake tutorials. I have achieved some
> success using a combination of -D 'CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=...' and -D
> 'KGEOMAP_LOCAL_DIR=...', but eventually gave up as I ran into more and
> more obstacles.
> 
> Cheers - Matthias
> 
> On 23.09.2015 19:59, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using Debian sid myself, so I can't exactly tell you what to do on
> > Jessie.
> > 
> > I've always built KGeoMap on my own because of the packaging situation in
> > Debian. This works quite well for me, even though I have to admit that
> > having kgeomap (and other Digikam-related libs) in its own package would
> > be the nicer solution...
> > 
> > If you need pointers for building kgeomap on your own, I can help you...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >    Johannes