Hi Matthias,
Sorry for the long delay - I meant to get back to you sooner.
In case you still need help, here's what works on a VM I installed with
wheezy. Just in case you didn't see it yet, I'll mention the official howto
for building KPhotoAlbum[1].
Unfortunately, this tutorial hasn't been updated for KPA 4.6, yet. I.e. there
is no mention of libkgeomap.
So here's what I do to build and install libkgeomap:
INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kde4-config --localprefix)
This is usually the directory ~/.kde and works fine as installation path for
kde-based programs. There's one catch, though: if you install kphotoalbum
here, "make install" will overwrite your kphotoalbumui.rc[2] and (more
importantly) your kphotoalbumrc file.
I'm not sure whether it is possible to install a KDE program outside the KDE
(local) prefix, but I've always had problems installing to some other
directory (at least KDE won't find some resource files like the KPhotoAlbum
handbook or the .desktop files).
Step one: install kgeomap
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/libkgeomap.git
cd libkgeomap
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PREFIX
make && make install
If you encounter any problem in this step or any other, please post the error
here so we can find a solution.
Step two: install libkface (if you want this,too)
I just noticed that the version of libopencv in wheezy is too old for libkface
from git master. I'll upgrade my VM to jessie and post this step once I've
verified it.
Step three: install kphotoalbum.
This should basically work as advertised in [1].
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kphotoalbum.git
cd kphotoalbum
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PREFIX
kgeomap should be found automatically if it is installed in either the KDE
prefix or the KDE local prefix directory.
make
# make sure to preserve your kphotoalbumrc file:
../script/kpa-backup.sh --backup
make install
../script/kpa-backup.sh --restore
If you have added $INSTALL_PREFIX/bin to your PATH, you should be able to
start kphotoalbum on the commandline. If it doesn't turn up in your start
menu, you should check where kphotoalbum installs the .desktop file against
the output of `kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps`.
I hope this is helpful to you...
Johannes
[1] https://userbase.kde.org/Building_KPhotoAlbum
[2] kphotoalbumui.rc contains the menu structure, including toolbars. If you
changed e.g. the toolbars of kphotoalbum, you might not want this file to be
overwritten. kphotoalbumrc is your KPhotoAlbum config file. You certainly
don't want this file to be overwritten.
Post by Matthias HeukäuferHi Johannes,
can I ask you for a brief explanation on how to build KGeoMap in Debian?
I have run out of ideas trying to build and package KPhotoAlbum in
Jessie using the digikam libs and sources.
Thank you for the link to the cmake tutorials. I have achieved some
success using a combination of -D 'CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=...' and -D
'KGEOMAP_LOCAL_DIR=...', but eventually gave up as I ran into more and
more obstacles.
Cheers - Matthias
Post by Johannes Zarl-ZierlHi,
I'm using Debian sid myself, so I can't exactly tell you what to do on Jessie.
I've always built KGeoMap on my own because of the packaging situation in
Debian. This works quite well for me, even though I have to admit that
having kgeomap (and other Digikam-related libs) in its own package would
be the nicer solution...
If you need pointers for building kgeomap on your own, I can help you...
Cheers,
Johannes