Installing Lphoto on Xandros

Andrew was kind enough to provide me with the results of lots of his elbow grease in the form of tarball. I just documented the manual process, and then loaded it into a simple apt repository. I suspect it won't be long now before LPhoto is available for other Debian-based distributions.

For Xandros 2

Add the ArchLUG APT Repository for Xandros2 to your Xandros Networks:

1. Launch => Xandros Networks
2. Select the Edit => Set Application Sources
3. Enable the Debian Unsupported Site
4. Add the following new source:

deb http://www.archlug.org/apt xandros2 archlug

Then:

1. Search for 'lphoto' using the Search box on the top right.
2. In the navigation panel on the bottom left, select Search Results => Expert
3. Click on the 'install' link

For Xandros 3

Add the ArchLUG APT Repository for Xandros3 to your Xandros Networks. The instructions are the same as above, except for the location of the repository.

deb http://www.archlug.org/apt xandros3 archlug

Doing things manually

How?

1. Launch => Xandros Networks
2. Select the Edit => Set Application Sources
3. Enable the "Debian Unsupported Site" source.
4. Click OK

To install Lphoto you must install all of the .deb files in this folder in order.

To install each package double click on it and choose to install using Xandros Networks, please do this in the following order:

(If Xandros Networks requests that you enter your Administrator Password, please do so)

1.  kslidesavergl_0.7-1_i386.deb
2.  python2.3-sip-qt3_3.10.2-1_i386.deb
3.  python2.3-qt3_3.11-1_i386.deb
4.  lphoto_1.0.13-0.0.0.45.xandros2_i386.deb

Lphoto can then be found under: Launch => Applications => Graphics => Lphoto

I skipped that and went for the gold, uncovering some of the dependencies along the way.

# dpkg -i kslidesavergl_0.7-1_i386.deb python2.3-sip-qt3_3.10.2-1_i386.deb python2.3-qt3_3.11-1_i386.deb

Andrew rocks. Time to ring the bell...

# dpkg -i lphoto_1.0.13-0.0.0.45.xandros2_i386.deb

Selecting previously deselected package lphoto.
(Reading database ... 91129 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lphoto (from lphoto_1.0.13-0.0.0.45.xandros2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lphoto:
 lphoto depends on xsltproc; however:
  Package xsltproc is not installed.
 lphoto depends on gphoto2; however:
  Package gphoto2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing lphoto (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lphoto

Ouch. But, hey, here is where apt-get comes in, heh-heh.

# apt-get install xsltproc gphoto2

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gphoto2: Depends: libcdk4 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

OK, add libcdk4 to the list.

# apt-get install xsltproc gphoto2 libcdk4

Ta Da!

However, when you start this application for the first time, there will appear to be missing icons for the buttons on the "Import" and "Organize" tabs. However, the icons will appear properly after you import your first pictures.

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