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f-spot - Personal photo management software for GNOME ChangeLog

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# F-Spot 0.2.1
# ============
# Prerequisites:
# gawk
# intltool
# Perl
# iconv
# gettext
# grep
# sed
# pkg-config
# Glib >= 2.0.0
# Mono >= 1.1.7
# GTK# (gtk-sharp) >= 2.7
# gconf and the rest of Gnome >= 2.4
# libjpeg
# SQLite >= 2.8.6
# lcms >= 1.12
# libgphoto2 >= 2.1.4
# libexif >= 0.5.7 <= 0.7.0

cd
test -f installed/f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/f-spot/0.2/f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "75e9823a1cb32ebba43c533556d12bdb f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2" | md5sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "f-spot-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xjvf ~/f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2
cd f-spot-0.2.1
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Install it
make install

# I live in the US and only read/write English (well), so I don't need these
find /usr/local/share/locale -type f -name f-spot.mo -exec rm {} \;

# I had to create this symlink for it
ln -s /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/f-spot-*.tar.*
mv f-spot-0.2.1.tar.bz2 installed/

# /usr/local/share/pixmaps/f-spot-logo.png can be used as a desktop icon

# I'm not sure why (I didn't really investigate...), but to start F-spot,
# I had to run it like so: "dbus-launch f-spot"

# If you ever want to uninstall F-Spot, this should do it:
cd
su
test -d src/f-spot-* && ( cd src/f-spot-* ; make uninstall )
( cd /usr/local/bin ; rm -f f-spot f-spot-import )
test -d /usr/local/lib/f-spot && rm -r /usr/local/lib/f-spot
( cd /usr/local/share/applications
rm -f f-spot.desktop f-spot-view.desktop )
rm -f /usr/local/share/pixmaps/f-spot-logo.png
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "f-spot-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/f-spot-*.tar.*