digiKam 1.1 Planned for the End of January 2010

Only a few days have passed since digiKam 1.0 was released to the delight of its users, and the developers already announced that version 1.1 will be available by the end of January 2009. According to the official announcement, digiKam 1.1 will be a bugfix release to the stable 1.x series.

digiKam is a powerful, open-source photo management application for KDE 4, which has support for various image manipulation plugins, importing or exporting photos, and organising your entire photographies in collections sorted by albums.

The announcement also asks for digiKam users to submit splash screens for the next version of digiKam. From the article: "So, time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam!"

For compiling and installing digiKam in Ubuntu 9.10 see this post.Source URL: https://ashesgarrett.blogspot.com/search/label/digikam
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How-To: Compile and Install digiKam 1.0.0 Beta 1 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

digiKam is a free photo management application for KDE, and probably the best alternative to Picasa from Google. digiKam includes many photo retouching and photo manipulation functions, and it allows to organise your collection into albums.

Kubuntu 9.04 comes with version 0.10 for KDE4, but in the first beta of version 1.0 was released on June 9. Here are several easy steps for compiling digiKam from source and installing it on a Ubuntu/Kubuntu Jaunty machine.

1. Install the needed dependencies
In a terminal window, type:

sudo apt-get build-dep digikam

This command will fetch all the needed development libraries and the meta package build-essential, which includes compilation tools.

2. Get the source code
Next, download the source code from the official homepage of digiKam, then uncompress it:

tar -xjf digikam-1.0.0-beta1.tar.bz2

3. Compile and install digiKam
Make sure the current working directory is digikam-1.0.0-beta1, then type the following:

cmake .
make
sudo make install

For the last command you will need the user password. Compilation may take a while, so have patience. Once the installation is over, you can start digiKam by either typing digikam in a terminal window or pressing Alt+F2 and typing digikam in the run box that appears.


digiKam 1.0.0 Beta 1 running in Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

digiKam homepage
Download digiKam source from SourceForge.net project page
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How-To: Compile and Install digiKam 0.10 in Debian Sid

digiKam is a popular photo management application for both KDE3 and KDE4. Starting with version 0.10, digiKam offers a KDE4 port too. Here are instructions on how to compile from source and install the latest release in Debian Sid.

1. Install the needed dependencies
First of all, install the tools needed for the compilation. Type as root:

apt-get install build-essential cmake

Get the KDE4 development libraries too:

apt-get install kdelibs5-dev

Now, install the development libraries needed to compile digiKam (that's only one line):

apt-get install libgphoto2-2-dev libkipi6-dev libexiv2-dev libkdcraw7-dev liblcms1-dev libtiff4-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libjasper-dev

These should do it.

2. Download the source code
Next, download the tarball from the official website and uncompress it:

tar -xjf digikam-0.10.0.tar.bz2

3. Compile and install digiKam
Change the current working directory to digikam-0.10.0, then compile and install it using these commands:

cmake .
make
make install

The last one as root. This worked for me (I hope I didn't miss any dependencies, if so, please let me know.) DigiKam 0.10 should be now installed.
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