Building digikam on slackware

Digikam doesn't come by default with slackware and has a number of dependencies. However, with the great scripts from slackbuilds.org, getting digikam up and running is pretty easy. Here are the programs that need to be built, in order, to get digikam up and running.

Build programs in this order, from slackbuilds.org

exiv2. later programs depend on this. this takes a few minutes to build.

jasper. this doesn't seem to have other programs depend on it and can be built at any time.

libkdcraw. this doesn't seem to have other programs depend on it and can be built at any time. It also doesn't seem to require having dcraw itself installed separately.

libkexiv2. need to have exiv2 installed first.

libkipi.

kipi-plugins. This depends on all the programs installed previously except jasper. This also takes a while to build.

digikam. Then we're ready to install digikam. this takes a long time to build.

gwenview. The gwenviewer also depends on most of the files above, so this can also be installed.