Building on Ubuntu using Automake¶

• This has been tested on Ubuntu14.04 64bit minimal install.
• Last revision on which this method was tested: r3288
• This wiki page assumes that installation prefix is /usr/local and your bulidir is ~/gnu

1. Install some of the basic utilities
   

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install -y subversion make autoconf pkg-config g++
   

2. Install all the dependencies for building exiv2. Since exiv2 is already available in the Ubuntu repositories, this method makes life easier.
   

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get build-dep -y exiv2
   

   
   In case you get the error: "E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list", then edit /etc/apt/sources.list . Copy all lines starting with 'deb' and replace the first word of these lines from 'deb' to 'deb-src' in their copied versions.
   

   # Fetch the source code:
   <pre>
   mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2
   cd ~/gnu/exiv2
   svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
   cd trunk
   </pre>
   # Start building exiv2
   <pre>
   make config
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install
   </pre>
   # Building samples
   <pre>
   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
   make samples
   </pre>
   # Building tests.
   ** Running tests requires one additional package:
   <pre>
   sudo apt-get install -y exifprobe
   </pre>
   ** Finally:
   <pre>
   cd ~/gnu/exiv2/trunk
   make tests
   </pre>