KPhotoAlbum

Compiling the sources for KPhotoAlbum is the same nevertheless how you got your hand on KPhotoAlbum, let that be via anonymous svn, write enabled svn, or from a source packages.

KPhotoAlbum has a number of dependencies that add extra value to KPhotoAlbum, namely KIPI plugins, extracting EXIF information, and generating video thumbnails. If you don't care about all this, you may go direction to the compile instructions for KPhotoAlbum itself

KPhotoAlbum comes with a plugin mechanism shared between a number of imaging applications. Compiling this plugin mechanism is optional and requires a bit of extra work, but in the end it adds quite a bit of functionality to KPhotoAlbum, see the KIPI page for a full list of plugins.

Your distribution may already come with KIPI and its plugins, in that case you might not need to do anything here. If not, you must compile the packages KEXIF, KIPI, and kipi-plugins in that order before compiling KPhotoAlbum itself.

KPhotoAlbum has support for showing EXIF information, plus searching in the exif information. This is optional, and KPhotoAlbum can be compiled without this support.

Your distribution will likely have a package for this already, otherwise Download EXIV2 and compile using a simple configure; make; make install.

To enable KPhotoAlbum to search your images using EXIF information, you also need to have a Qt installed with SQLite support (this might be a separate package). Check the output of cmake (when compiling KPhotoAlbum itself) and/or the Help->KPhotoAlbum Feature Status to see if things got compiled correctly.

KDE 4 does currently not support generating a thumbnail for video files. If you want to use KPhotoAlbum for your videos, then it is highly recommendable to install MPlayerThumbs

• cmake .
  First of all notice the dot in the above command!
  You may add a few extra options to CMake, these includes:

  • -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path-to-install-to - with this you can tell cmake to install KPhotoAlbum in a non default directory.
  • -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo - adding this will give you a debug build.

  An example may look like:
  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/kphotoalbum -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .

• make
  This step will compile kphotoalbum
• sudo make install
  Finally, install KPhotoAlbum. This step is required for it to function correctly!
• kphotoalbum
  If you installed KPhotoAlbum in a non default directory, then you need to set the environment variable KDEDIRS to point to the directory you installed it into. This may look like this in your ~/.bashrc file:
  export KDEDIRS=~/kphotoalbum