<listitem><para>Gerhard Kulzer <email>gerhard at kulzer.net</email></para></listitem>
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All Images copyrighted 2003-2007 by Gilles Caulier <email>caulier_dot_gilles_at_gmail_dot_com</email> and Gerhard Kulzer <email>gerhard_at_kulzer_dot_net</email>.
<sect1 id="getting-kapp"> <title>How to Obtain &digikam;</title>
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The website for &digikam; is at <ulink url="http://www.digikam.org">http://www.digikam.org</ulink>. Please check it regularly to get the latest news about &digikam;. &digikam; can be obtained in binary and source format from <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641</ulink>.
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Also you can checkout the <emphasis>digikam</emphasis> and <emphasis>kipi</emphasis> source code modules
from &kde; Extragear SVN repository like this:
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<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics</userinput>
All library dependencies require development and binary packages installed on your
computer to compile &digikam;.
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Most likely your distribution vendor might already have packaged and provided these packages.
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<sect1 id="compilation"> <title>Compilation and Installation</title>
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In order to compile and install &digikam; on your system, type the following in the base folder of the <emphasis>libkipi</emphasis> and <emphasis>digikam</emphasis> module distributions:
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.
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More specific compilation and installation options can be passed to the <emphasis>configure</emphasis> script. Use <userinput>./configure --help</userinput> on the command line to view these options.
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Use <emphasis>--enable-debug=full</emphasis> option with <emphasis>configure</emphasis> script for to provide a full information bug report.
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Because &digikam; depends on <emphasis>libkipi</emphasis> and <emphasis>libkexif</emphasis>, you must build these libraries before you build &digikam;.
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Since &digikam; uses autoconf and automake you should not have trouble compiling it. If you run into problems please report them to <email>digikam-users@kde.org</email>.