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 build-dir 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.
3. Fetch the source code:
   

   mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2
   cd ~/gnu/exiv2
   svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
   cd trunk
   

4. Start building exiv2
   

   make config
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install
   

5. Building samples
   

   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
   make samples
   

6. Building tests.
   • Running tests requires one additional package:
     

     sudo apt-get install -y exifprobe
     

   • Finally:
     

     cd ~/gnu/exiv2/trunk
     make tests