gPhoto is making me want to tear my eyeballs out

[Sean Gray]

My digital camera is not supported by the version of gphoto that's currently on my computer. Fortunately, there's an update at gphoto.org that will support it. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to get the update to work. I've tried everything my tiny little brain can think of.

First off:

1.) Do I download gphoto2-2.1.6 or libgphoto2-2.1.6?

2.) After I've downloaded that which needs to be downloaded, what to I do with it? I tried all that ./configure ish, and when I checked gphoto absolutely nothing had happened.

Clearly, I'm retarded. If someone has the time, I would love a little baby-steps walkthrouh to get me through this. If not, beat me to death so I don't have to go through this torture anymore.

Thanks.

[seagull]

What distro?
rpm or zip file ?

[Sean Gray]

Here's the download page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=337127

Looks to be tarballs.

My distro is Yarrow. Fedora Core.

[Ethyriel]

gphoto depends on libgphoto. So you need to get libgphoto, make sure you have all of it's dependencies, and then:
./configure
make
make install

Then get gphoto, and make sure you have any dependencies it has which libgphoto does not. Again:
./configure
make
make install

You might want to append --prefix=/usr to your ./configure's
./configure --help will give you a list of generic and package specific compile time options.
You should uninstall previous versions of libgphoto and gphoto with apt/yum before you make install.

[Sean Gray]

You should uninstall previous versions of libgphoto and gphoto with apt/yum before you make install.

How do I do that?

[Ethyriel]

Hrm, I've never used RPM all that much, but I think FC3 installs Synaptic by default to manage packages from a GUI. Try running 'synaptic' from your terminal, and it should be fairly easy to figure out from there.

Otherwise:
man rpm
man yum

Hopefully someone else will help more specifically.

[Sean Gray]

Well, I went to synaptic, checked under Applications/Graphics, and I couldn't find anthing related to gphoto or gtkam.

Here's a screenshot:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...p/Synaptic.png

[Ethyriel]

Doesn't Synaptic have a search function? If the OS installed it for you, it must be there somewhere.