[Transit]

Yes I was going down the path of trying to install a tarball with darktable and have never successfully done a tarball. Then as often is the case I lucked into a site that gave a couple of terminal commands that I copied/ pasted- one to access a repository and one to install and it was done.Linux experts seem to have an inability to point you to the simplest way!! Why it will never be quite as simple as windows is that no one but yourself has permission to tamper with your OS but that is why it is such a secure virus proof system.

I think half of it is the confusing terms
and the other half is the hours and hours of frustration I've spent trying to get the thing going.
and the third half, and ironically, it doesn't run gpl....no not that one, this one
Pete

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[GUB]

I think half of it is the confusing terms
and the other half is the hours and hours of frustration I've spent trying to get the thing going.
and the third half, and ironically, it doesn't run gpl....no not that one, this one
Pete
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It has certainly been a tough learning curve starting from scratch with linux. But I have got a friend up and running with a clone of my template install. Coz that is the thing about linux you can easily create copies--- I can lift the hardrive out of my machine and chuck it in another and away it will run. Windows has gone to great efforts to make sure you cant do this. I could supply a build if you were interested-- it would take a little time to update the template harddrive .
64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. cw Digikam--gimp-- darktable- hugin-macrofusion-inkscape plus all usual stuff plus wine to run windows apps plus Virtualbox ready to install a virtual windows OS on. Stick this on a small solid state hardrive in a modest dual core puter with heaps of ram and you have what I have.

[bobD]

I think half of it is the confusing terms
and the other half is the hours and hours of frustration I've spent trying to get the thing going.
and the third half, and ironically, it doesn't run gpl....no not that one, this one
Pete
Grand Prix Legends - Monaco - YouTube

Thats why you keep a dual boot with Win and Ubuntu.
Monaco...? really.. don't you find it a bit 'tame'..?

Now...

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[Transit]

Thats why you keep a dual boot with Win and Ubuntu.
Monaco...? really.. don't you find it a bit 'tame'..?

ahem...gpl is a sim

[cpopham]

Philosophically - can you ever have too many lenses?

My wife says yes!

[NZ_Ross]

Well, it is my birthday today - it was another stunning South Canterbury Day (view from the office window). The FA 50mm Macro, which counted as a birthday present was working well enough too. It has been a very nice day, and I have enjoyed the chance to take a few photos too.

Cheers

Ross

[NZ_Ross]

My wife says yes!

Well that seals it then - you obviously can have too many lenses

[bobD]

Ross, a very Hippy Bathday to you..!
Looks like you had the best of weather and a grand pressie to capture it all with..

Whowee that lens is sharp....

[bobD]

Yes I was going down the path of trying to install a tarball with darktable and have never successfully done a tarball.

My 'Bangarium' (workshop to you Jimmy) is an elderly computers retirement village and so I hauled out the fastest of them...
AMD single core 2GHz + 2Gb Ram.... and tried the 1.2 Darktable tarball.
LoL, the instructions need a bit of updating.
Download the tarball and extract it.(Ubuntu right click it and "extract here"
Then cd to the folder and run the rest of the commands...

Code:

$ ./build.sh

Took about 18 minutes and I now have a version custom to this old computer.
Only thing I can't get (yet) is it starting from Unity launcher or Terminal.
I have to navigate to Opt and click the .bin file to start it.
Once started it roars...

Let me know if you need a walk through...

[NZ_Ross]

Whowee that lens is sharp....

The FA 50mm Macro has a very well deserved reputation of being a very sharp lens SMC Pentax-FA 50mm F2.8 Macro Reviews - FA Prime Lenses - Pentax Lens Reviews & Lens Database. Score of 10 for sharpness in the reviews, and rated as one of the sharpest lenses Pentax ever produced.

Not a lens to be taking portraits with

[GUB]

My 'Bangarium' (workshop to you Jimmy) is an elderly computers retirement village and so I hauled out the fastest of them...
AMD single core 2GHz + 2Gb Ram.... and tried the 1.2 Darktable tarball.
LoL, the instructions need a bit of updating.
Download the tarball and extract it.(Ubuntu right click it and "extract here"
Then cd to the folder and run the rest of the commands...
Code:
$ ./build.sh
Took about 18 minutes and I now have a version custom to this old computer.
Only thing I can't get (yet) is it starting from Unity launcher or Terminal.
I have to navigate to Opt and click the .bin file to start it.
Once started it roars...

Let me know if you need a walk through...

Na I got it running fine via the repositories. was that the only command?Isnt that different to "install"?
Reading the manual I gather it demands a lot of resources to run.

[GUB]

My 'Bangarium' (workshop to you Jimmy) is an elderly computers retirement village and so I hauled out the fastest of them...
AMD single core 2GHz + 2Gb Ram.... and tried the 1.2 Darktable tarball.
LoL, the instructions need a bit of updating.
Download the tarball and extract it.(Ubuntu right click it and "extract here"
Then cd to the folder and run the rest of the commands...
Code:
$ ./build.sh
Took about 18 minutes and I now have a version custom to this old computer.
Only thing I can't get (yet) is it starting from Unity launcher or Terminal.
I have to navigate to Opt and click the .bin file to start it.
Once started it roars...

Let me know if you need a walk through...

Na I got it running fine via the repositories. was that the only command?Isnt that different to "install"?
Reading the manual I gather it demands a lot of resources to run.

Sorry about the above balls up. I did a quick reply and it forgot to quote you!!

[bobD]

@GUB

was that the only command?Isnt that different to "install"?
Reading the manual I gather it demands a lot of resources to run.

The build.sh is a script that automagically builds the app then at the end of the build it gave the 'make-install' line ready for pasting...!!
Yep, works best with a 64bit machine, 4+ gig of ram, multicore processor and fast hard-drive.
That said the beauty of building from source is you end up with a customised version tailored to the computer it was built on.
Generic packages and ppas have to allow for all and any hardware so there is a lot of redundancy.
Next I am going to try the memory optimisation tweaks...
Darktable and Memory | darktable
and possibly..
7.2.6.

[bobD]

The FA 50mm Macro has a very well deserved reputation of being a very sharp lens
Not a lens to be taking portraits with

FA 50mm Macro AKA 'wrinkle revealer'

Just make sure that each and every May 24th you are at the operating end of it and not the subject end...

[Eion]

Happy Birthday kiwi_Ross