feedback on libgphoto 2.1.99: works for me!

Hello,

Here's some feedback on libgphoto 2.1.99. In summary: It worked great
for me.

I tried it out for a friend because their Kodak Z7590 wasn't working
with Digikam 0.8, and I read this update might fix it. 

After installing the supporting software, it readily compiled on
Mandriva 2006. 

I used "checkinstall --install=yes" instead of "make install" to install
it which created an RPM package for me that I could uninstall if needed. 

I then ran "digikam" again. It initially complained that it could not
find libgphoto2.so.2  (I hope I got that file name right). 

That was because the files were installed /usr/local/lib, but digikam
was looking in /usr/lib. That was readily fixed:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgphoto* /usr/lib/

( I assume providing some option to "./configure" would have been a
better solution... )

Then digikam started and read the photos just fine. Thanks!

Ironically, I heard the family may still having a problem getting the
photos off the camera using Windows XP...

    Mark

-- 
http://www.richmondcomputes.org/



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