# Credits and License

&digikam; logo

Program copyright 2001-2006, &digikam; developers team

- Renchi Raju renchi_at_pooh.tam.uiuc.edu: Coordinator, Main Developer.

- Caulier Gilles caulier_dot_gilles_at_gmail_dot_com: Co-coordinator, Developer, French Translations.

- Joern Ahrens kde_at_jokele.de: Developer.

- Tom Albers tomalbers_at_kde.nl: Developer.

- Ralf Hoelzer kde_at_ralfhoelzer.com: Developer.

Documentation copyrighted by:

- 2001-2002 Renchi Raju renchi_at_pooh.tam.uiuc.edu.

- 2002-2003

  - Gilles Caulier caulier_dot_gilles_at_gmail_dot_com

  - Renchi Raju renchi_at_pooh.tam.uiuc.edu

- 2003-2005

  - Gilles Caulier caulier_dot_gilles_at_gmail_dot_com

  - Renchi Raju renchi_at_pooh.tam.uiuc.edu

  - Richard Taylor rjt-digicam_at_thegrindstone_dot_me_dot_uk

  - Ralf Hoelzer kde_at_ralfhoelzer.com

  - Joern Ahrens kde_at_jokele.de

  - Oliver Doerr oliver_at_doerr-privat.de

  - Gerhard Kulzer gerhard at kulzer.net

  2005-2007

  - Gilles Caulier caulier_dot_gilles_at_gmail_dot_com

  - Gerhard Kulzer gerhard at kulzer.net

All Images copyrighted 2003-2007 by Gilles Caulier caulier_dot_gilles_at_gmail_dot_com and Gerhard Kulzer gerhard_at_kulzer_dot_net.

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# Installation

## How to Obtain &digikam;

The website for &digikam; is at http://www.digikam.org. Please check it regularly to get the latest news about &digikam;. &digikam; can be obtained in binary and source format from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641.

Also you can checkout the digikam and kipi source code modules from &kde; Extragear SVN repository like this:

        % svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics
        % cd graphics
        % svn up digikam
        % svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kde-common/admin

The last SVN snapshoots can be downloaded at this &URL; ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/snapshots/.

## Requirements

In order to successfully use &digikam;, you need the following:

- AutoConf >= 2.5 GNU autoconf

- AutoMake >= 1.7.0 GNU automake

- &kde; 3.x &kde; Home Page

- libqt >= 3.3.x Trolltech

- libsqlite >= 3.x SQlite3

- gphoto2 >= 2.x Gphoto Home Page

- libgdbm >= 1.8.0

- libkipi >= 0.1 www.kipi-plugins.org

- libkexiv2 >= 0.1 www.kipi-plugins.org

- libdcraw >= 0.1.5 www.kipi-plugins.org

- libtiff >= 3.6.x (>=3.8.2 recommended) www.remotesensing.org

- libpng >= 1.2.0 www.libpng.org

- liblcms >= 1.14.x Little CMS Home Page

- libjasper >= 1.7 Jasper site

- exiv2 >= 0.12 (>=0.14 recommended) Exiv2.org

All library dependencies require development and binary packages installed on your computer to compile &digikam;.

Most likely your distribution vendor might already have packaged and provided these packages.

## Compilation and Installation

In order to compile and install &digikam; on your system, type the following in the base folder of the libkipi and digikam module distributions:

        % export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1
        % export KDEDIR=KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system
        % export
        PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/path/to/installation/lib/pkgconfig
        % make -f Makefile.cvs
        % ./configure
        % make
        % su
        % make install

### Important Notes

Stage 3 is required if you are installing libkipi/libkexiv2 in a non-standard location, and you must let pkg-config know about their paths.

More specific compilation and installation options can be passed to the configure script. Use `./configure --help` on the command line to view these options.

Use --enable-debug=full option with configure script for to provide a full information bug report.

Because &digikam; depends on libkipi and libkexif, you must build these libraries before you build &digikam;.

Since &digikam; uses autoconf and automake you should not have trouble compiling it. If you run into problems please report them to digikam-users@kde.org.

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