location of default KDE installation folder
Hi. I'm trying to install digiKam 0.72 ( from digikam-0.7.2.tar.bz2) from source in FC3, and I'm stuck on the README instructions:
1) export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 2) export KDEDIR=KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system 3) if you are installing libkipi/libkexif in a non-standard location let pkg-config know about their paths: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/path/to/installation/lib/pkgconfig 4) make -f Makefile.cvs 5) ./configure 6) make 7) su 8) make install export KDEDIR=KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system I'm guessing that this means I should replace KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system with the actual directory, but I don't know where that is. I searched for all KDE files and folders on my system, but I couldn't find any that specifically say "KDE install." Could someone please tell me where it is? Also, what are the export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 and make -f Makefile.cvs lines for? In all other source installs I've done, I started with ./configure and went right through to make install. I didn't see these special instructions before I simply typed ./configure and got a message saying that I needed imlib2, which I've since installed. After I get all this info, and type the first four steps, do I type ./configure again? |
Do the following,
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$make -f Makefile.cvs |
Hello, reddazz. :) Thanks for once again coming to my rescue. I just have one question; it looks like the ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` line takes care of the second step in the instructions (export KDEDIR=KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system), but what about the first step (export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1)?
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I am not sure about that one. I think if you have autoconf 2.5.1 this should already be set so you won't need to export anything, but if not just do "export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1" before doing "make -f makefile.cvs".
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Shoot. I got a strange error. I opened the terminal and typed "su -" to get root permissions, navigated to the digiKam folder, and because my version of autoconf is apparently 2.59 I typed "export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1". Then I typed "make -f Makefile.cvs". I got back
"make: Makefile.cvs: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.cvs'. Stop." What did I do wrong? |
If you already have a configure script you don't need to do "make -f Makefile.cvs", so it may not exist. Try going straight to doing "./configure".
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Use "su" before the make install step. I had an error once because a file needed was in a normal users path but not in root's path. I had used "su -" before the make install step, which was the source of the error.
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Sorry it took me so long to reply! I've been so busy that I haven't had time to try installing digiKam again until today.
I got another error :( configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: kde-config –prefix Don't worry about it, though; I'm going to upgrade to FC4 soon, and I think it has digiKam already, so I'm giving up for now. I think the digiKam developers could be a little more specific with their installation instructions, though. Quote:
P.S. When I got the above error, I tried it both ways but got the same message each time. |
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