Building KPhotoAlbum
This howto will tell you the steps required to pull, build and install the GIT version of KPhotoAlbum in Ubuntu/Debian.
This will allow you to test all the latest features that have not been published in the official releases or have not reached your distribution yet.
Summary
First build
#First backup all your precious files!! sudo apt-get install build-essential git sudo apt-get build-dep kphotoalbum 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 make install #use sudo in front if needed
Updating
cd ~/kphotoalbum git pull make install #use sudo in front if needed
Running
~/kphotoalbum/script/kpa-backup.sh --backup ~/kphotoalbum/bin/kphotoalbum
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
(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
Backup
By using the laster GIT versions of KPhotoAlbum you risk losing your precious files. It shouldn't happen but you never know. This would now be an excellent time to run the backups - you've just downloaded a script to backup the KPhotoAlbum config files for you so keep reading! Your photos you already have backed up, right...?
Backup script
KPhotoalbum source code has a backup script included. You can just simply run it after the sources have been fetched (script/kpa-backup.sh):
(script/kpa-backup.sh --backup script/kpa-backup.sh --restore
Manual backup
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/
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 the instructions at #Installing
RUNNING
Follow instruction at #Running