I'm new to the KDE environment. I stumbled on in search of a reasonably good digital photo organizer. Several sites recommended digiKam. After bouncing around several times finally deciphered how to download KDE, which I did last evening. In spite of the digiKam web site assurances that the application was included in KDE it appeared not be included. More research and it appears the various download sites for KDE have different builds (if that is the correct term in KDE-speak). I found a download of digiKam and downloaded the tar ball and decrypted it w/ WinZip. I found the file labeled "Install" and double clicked. Was not an executable. Went back to the download site for KDE and tried a repair and some other poking around. Never resulted in a digiKam file that would execute.

Where did I go wrong? Or did I miss something or incorrectly interpret an instruction along the way?

Dennis

hello and welcome - the tar ball is a file that needs to be compiled to be installed

Application installation in Linux is dependent on the distribution that you installed, if you let us know what you've installed then someone will point you to how to find and install applications for that distribution.

here a couple of overviews:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system
http://sluug.org/resources/presentation ... gement.pdf

google01103 wrote:hello and welcome - the tar ball is a file that needs to be compiled to be installed

Application installation in Linux is dependent on the distribution that you installed, if you let us know what you've installed then someone will point you to how to find and install applications for that distribution.

here a couple of overviews:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system
http://sluug.org/resources/presentation ... gement.pdf

Apparently, he's a Windows XP user (at least according to his profile info), so I doubt that will help.

drruth2 wrote:I'm new to the KDE environment. I stumbled on in search of a reasonably good digital photo organizer. Several sites recommended digiKam. After bouncing around several times finally deciphered how to download KDE, which I did last evening. In spite of the digiKam web site assurances that the application was included in KDE it appeared not be included. More research and it appears the various download sites for KDE have different builds (if that is the correct term in KDE-speak). I found a download of digiKam and downloaded the tar ball and decrypted it w/ WinZip. I found the file labeled "Install" and double clicked. Was not an executable. Went back to the download site for KDE and tried a repair and some other poking around. Never resulted in a digiKam file that would execute.

Where did I go wrong? Or did I miss something or incorrectly interpret an instruction along the way?

Dennis

The instructions to install KDE on Windows (I'm assuming you use Windows since that's what your profile says) can be found at http://windows.kde.org/
Basically, you just download and run the installer. Digikam is included, so it should be installable, just pay attention to the options in case you have to explicitly select what you want to install (I'm not a Windows user, so I don't know how the KDE installer for windows works).

Also, the "Install" file that you mention should have been a text file with instructions on how to compile (in case you don't know, that means "to generate an executable file", and it's a task that requires some tools that you might not have installed on your computer) and install the app. Did you read it? Doesn't really matter, since you can use the KDE Windows installer and therefore avoid having to compile anything...