Installing instructions for f-spot in FC4
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Written by Anze Vidmar on 2005-10-25
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What is f-spot
F-Spot (http://www.gnome.org/projects/f-spot/) is an application designed to provide personal photo management to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced sorting of digital images.
Image of f-spot in action
Why this article
Because I see a lot of users having problem with dependencies, missing libraries, strange errors, etc...
Installation
We will use yum tool for installing f-spot. The most f-spot packages are in nrpms (http://www.nrpms.net/) repository. The other three packages are in fedora-extras repository.
First, enable fedora-extras.repo and install all the packages that are not available in the nrpms repository. fedora-extras.repo config file is in FC4 by default, so only thing to do is to enable it (look into the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo) and make sure you have the following line:
enabled=1
Next, install the following packages from fedora-extras repository:
[root@station5 ~]# yum install sqlite2 sqlite2-devel lcms
This are the three packages that are not in nrpms repository. After the three packages are installed, disable fedora-extras.repo, this is done by changing the line "enable=1" to "enable=0".
Ok, next, make sure you have /etc/yum.repos.d/nrpms-mono.repo repository file configured as follows
[nr-production] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - nrpms.net/production baseurl=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/ mirrorlist=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/mirrors-nrpms enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [nr-mono] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - nrpms.net/mono baseurl=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/mono/ mirrorlist=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/mono/mirrors-nrpms enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Make sure you have an extra empty line at the bottom of the file.
Next, it's time to actually install f-spot. This is done with the following command:
[root@station5 ~]# yum install f-spot gtk-sharp2
The list should be long, and should look like this (if you don't have mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) packages installed yet):
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: f-spot i386 0.1.3-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 640 k Installing for dependencies: bytefx-data-mysql i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 151 k cairo i386 1.0.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-production 270 k glitz i386 0.4.3-1.1.fc4.nr nr-production 80 k gtk-sharp i386 1.0.10-2.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 637 k gtkhtml3 i386 3.8.1-1.1.fc4.nr nr-production 870 k ibm-data-db2 i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 54 k libgc i386 1:6.4-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 61 k libpixman i386 0.1.5-1.1.fc4.nr nr-production 49 k mono-basic i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 516 k mono-complete i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 2.9 k mono-core i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 9.8 M mono-data i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 1.7 M mono-data-firebird i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 548 k mono-data-oracle i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 189 k mono-data-postgresql i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 208 k mono-data-sqlite i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 51 k mono-data-sybase i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 177 k mono-extras i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 265 k mono-ikvm i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 13 k mono-locale-extras i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 941 k mono-web i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 2.2 M mono-winforms i386 1.1.9.2-1.1.fc4.nr nr-mono 2.6 M Updating for dependencies: pango i386 1.10.1-1.1.fc4.nr nr-production 288 k pango-devel i386 1.10.1-1.1.fc4.nr nr-production 217 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 23 Package(s) Update 2 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 22 M Is this ok [y/N]:
After saying "yes", f-spot should be installed on your system and is ready to run.
You can start the program by typing "f-spot" in the console, or you can find the Application shortcut under "Graphics --> Photo Viewer" as shown below
Troubleshooting
The most common error is shown bellow
It means that gtk-sharp2 is missing. That's why you have to installed it separately (It's interesting that this package doesn't come as dependency to f-spot package)
Enjoy! :-)
