DIGIKAM

Authors :
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See AUTHORS file for details.


About :
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 digiKam is an easy to use and powerful digital photo management
 application, which makes importing, organizing and manipulating
 digital photos a "snap".  An easy to use interface is provided
 to connect to your digital camera, preview the images and download
 and/or delete them.

 digiKam buildin image editor makes the common photo correction
 a simple task.  The image editor is extensible via plugins.
 The digikamimageplugins package contains many useful image editor
 plugins.

 digiKam can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to
 extend it's capabilities even further for photo manipulations,
 import and export, etc.  The kipi-plugins package contains many
 very useful extentions.

 Homepage: http://www.digikam.org

 digiKam is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.


Contact :
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If you have questions, comments, suggestions to make do email at :

digikam-users@kde.org

If you want contribute to digiKam developments do email at :

digikam-devel@kde.org


IMPORTANT : the bugreports and wishlist are hosted by the KDE bugs report 
system who can be contacted by the standard Kde help menu of digiKam. 
A mail will be automaticly sent to the digikam development mailing list.
There is no need to contact directly the digikam mailing list for a bug report 
or a devel wish.

The current digiKam bugs and devel wish reported to the Kde bugs report can be see 
at this url :

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED


Dependencies :
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AutoConf >= 2.5
AutoMake >= 1.7.0
KDE 3.x
gphoto2 2.x
imlib2 >= 1.2.0
libgdbm >= 1.8.0
libkipi (>= 0.1) from http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi
libkexif (>=0.2) from http://www.digikam.org/
libtiff >= 3.5.x

Installation :
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In the source directory do :

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

More specifics compilations and installations options can be used with '.configure' script.
Check it with './configure --help' command line.

Nota : use the '--enable-debug=full' option with the configure script for to provide
a full informations bug report.


