Slack 12.1 - Digikam
 

Hi,
I've been fightin' with Digikam for two days now.
I installed all 8 pkgs from SlackBuilds and could not even 'find' digikam much less start it.
Heres the pkgs I installed:

sqlite-3.5.8-i486-1_SBo.tgz
libkexiv2-0.1.6-i486-1_SBo.tgz
libkipi-0.1.5-i486-1_SBo.tgz
libkdcraw-0.1.3-i486-1_SBo.tgz
jasper-1.900.1-i486-1_SBo.tgz
libgphoto2-2.4.1-i486-1_SBo.tgz
exiv2-0.16-i486-1_SBo.tgz
digikam-0.9.3-i486-1_SBo.tgz

There were no icons on the menu and it wasn't in /usr/bin

I ran whereis on each of the packages and got no locations for digikam & libkexiv2.
They did however show up in pkgtool so I figgerd they were no good and removed them.
I then tried to make them with src2pkg and that didn't work either.

Next I installed libkexiv2 from source and then installed the digikam SlackBuild. No luck.

Next I removed the digikam SlackBuild and reinstalled it from source. Now Digikam & ShoFoto works perfect.

I googled this for Slack 12.1 and couldn't find anything specific to Slack 12.1 and nuthin' on the LQ search for 12.1 either. So from that I concluded that I'm the only one doing it wrong somehow.

My question:
Was I supposed to interact in some way with the affected SlackBuilds??
I read the READMEs and thought I was doing it right but I'm new to Slack and screw stuff quite often.

Thanks in advance.

You should get Alien Bob's packages ...

Bruce Hill:
Thanks!
All of Alien Bob's pkgs worked perfect.
............Much faster too! .. :-)

Glad they worked for you ... Alien Bob and Tinkster have kept me
going in Slackware all the times I "hit the wall". I know about
Digikam specifically cause he built it to help me. ;)