Compile KPhotoAlbum

Compiling latest Git version of KPhotoAlbum on Ubuntu / Debian

Backup

BY USING GIT VERSION YOU RISK LOOSING YOUR DATA. IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN BUT YOU NEVER KNOW. SO DO BACKUP YOUR FILES (come on, at least the index.xml) FIRST! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

Create backup directory mkdir kpa-backup

Backup your settings: cp -a ~/.kde/share/apps/kphotoalbum/kphotoalbumui.rc kpa-backup/ cp -a ~/.kde/share/config/kphotoalbumrc kpa-backup/

And if you want to try KPhotoalbum with your real database (not the demo): Backup your database: cp -a /path/to/your/image/folder/index.html kpa-backup/ cp -a /path/to/your/image/folder/exif-info.db kpa-backup/

Backup the layout of your Annotation dialog: cp -a /path/to/your/image/folder/layout.dat kpa-backup/

Note: there is also a backup script provided in KPhotoAlbum sources. You can just simply run it after the sources have been fetched (source/script/kpa-backup.sh): kpa-backup.sh --backup kpa-backup.sh --restore

Build

Build dependencies

If you've had KPhotoAlbum installed earlier from repositories, the Git KPhotoAlbum will use the same setting files as the earlier version. If you want to be able to use the previous version after installing this, please do install to custom directory, not the default one.

Install required build tools: sudo apt-get install git build-essential

Install required packages to build: sudo apt-get build-dep kphotoalbum

OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED: Install other dependencies: sudo apt-get install kipi-plugins mplayerthumbs libjpeg8-dev khelpcenter4 (I'm not sure if libjpeg is needed, its in the build dependencies, see http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kphotoalbum/kphotoalbum_4.1.1-4.debian.tar.gz)

Fetching source code

Clone the Git repository: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kphotoalbum.git

Building

Move to the created directory cd kphotoalbum

Create a build-directory (so you don't mess up you source directory) mkdir build ; cd build

Run cmake to configure the build system cmake .. [to install to the default directory] OR cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/for/my/kphotoalbum/installation .. [to install to a custom directory] OR cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=relwithdebuginfo .. [to make the debug build that will output plenty of debug messages to help track crashes etc] OR combine the options: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/kphotoalbum -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..

See the messages. In this stage you'll be told if you have missing dependencies. Do fix them (try to find the missing packages from the package repositories) before continuing.

Run make: make

Installing

Run installation(optional): make install or if the installation path is not writable by your user: sudo make install

Running

A handy feature of the cmake build-system is that it builds binaries in such a way that you can start them from within the build system. This certainly handy for quickly testing a new version of KPhotoalbum without touching anything else on your system. However, be aware that some features depend on hard-coded paths (e.g. menu-entries, Handbook, HTML Exports, Demo) and may not work as expected. These features will still use the files installed by the distributions version of KPhotoAlbum. You can just try out KPhotoalbum without installation first, and install later on (see 2.4), if you decide so.

If you installed to a non-standard directory, you have two options: 1a) Start KPhotoAlbum from the directory where it was installed: /path/for/my/kphotoalbum/installation/kphotoalbum OR 1b) add the following line to /home/username/.bashrc so you can start KPhotoAlbum from anywhere: export KDEDIRS=/path/for/my/kphotoalbum/installation Restart your terminal (so that .bashrc gets executed)

2)Start KPhotoAlbum: kphotoalbum

It's always a good idea to first try out things with the demo-database. Just add "--demo" when starting KPhotoalbum: kphotoalbum --demo

Rebuild

Refetching sources

In the kphotoalbum Git folder, pull the changes: git pull

If you want to see what has changed try git log or qgit for graphical user interface

Rebuilding

You normally don't have to run cmake again -- it will be invoked by the makefiles, if neccessary. Otherwise follow BUILDING.

Reinstalling

Follow instruction at #installing

RUNNING

Follow instruction at #Running

Summary

First build

sudo apt-get build-essential build-dep kphotoalbum sudo apt-get install git libjpeg8-dev sudo apt-get install kipi-plugins mplayerthumbs libjpeg8-dev khelpcenter4 git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kphotoalbum cd kphotoalbum mkdir build ; cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/kphotoalbum -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. make install

Updating

cd ~/kphotoalbum git pull make install

Running

~/kphotoalbum/script/kpa-backup.sh --backup ~/kphotoalbum/bin/kphotoalbum