Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Paul-B]

Just a quickie guys & gals.

On a quest for some form of photo management software for Puppy, something in the rhelms of Linspire's Lphoto, Apple's iPhoto or Adobe's Photoshop Album.

I've had a quick trawl of the forums and PSI but there doesn't seem to be anything similar.

Can anyone suggest anything and/or point me in the right direction?

Paul-B

[muggins]

i just had a look for similar software yesterday, but it seems that most have kde or gnome dependencies. i came across tkalbum, which is a gui frontend for album:

http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/tools/TKAlbum/

i also saw this thread, where they conclude the best option is running The!Checker under wine:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=263973

also i've just uploaded gqview, which has some image management functionality, here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=20577

[Taavi]

Picasa works fine - but it's not very small solution:

http://picasa.google.com/linux/

I have tried Mapivi too, it's good with IPTC information:

http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml

[WhoDo]

[Paul-B]

Taavi, you are GOD. Picasa is PERFECT, and so easy to install too!

Thank you all very much for your help, I'll be sure to add Picasa and the install how-to to my Puppy documentation project for my works, people are always wanting to organise they're photo's, and until now I've not had much to tell them except to enable thumbnail view.

You've potentially made a lot of people very happy Taavi!

Paul-B

[Taavi]

Thanks. But I think it were rarsa and others who first suggested Picasa in some other page of this forum. I have been helped really many times by the members of the forum.

[gw]

Hello,

I've installed the debian package of Album Shaper (multi OS, multi languages, GPL) : http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/
It runs fine by me.

A+
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GW

[?xunil]

any tips on installing Album Shaper? did it need any libraries? thanks.

[john biles]

Hello ?xunil,
I installed the debian version of Album Shaper from www.debian.org after using the undeb/unrpm dotpup from MU's site.
It gave a small error when being converted from debian but appears to still work fine.
Just remember it's a QT App so requires qt3.3.3 or newer.
I believe there's a pet package for that you can download for qt.

[gw]

Hello ?xunil,

I used this method to install the debian package :
http://www.puppy-linux.info/en/manual/puppy217/main.html (7.2.3 Debian packages). Read the article up to end, because you could experiment the little problem of the disparition of the menu (I have had the problem with Puppy 2.17.1 which is the version I use).
Dependencies : libqt-mt.so.3 (sorry, the final result is not so light)
Perhaps try it first on Puppy booted with the option "puppy pfix=ram" for more security.

Good luck
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GW

[puppyLUVER1234]

How do i install it because undeb dosent work..

[muggins]

puppyLUVER1234,

for the sake of people with short attention spans, like me, can you tone uncle sam down somewhat?

[puppyLUVER1234]

Uncle Sam deleted himself.

[john biles]

Hello puppyLUVER1234,
Undeb/unrpm does work if you open a terminal where you placed the deb file and type undeb filename.deb and press enter
undeb/unrpm will most liking place a folder called usr next to the original deb file.
All you need to do is copy over each file to their correct folders and click on the file in the bin folder to start the app.

puppyLUVER1234 if you know all this, that's ok, some else reading this post might not know this and it might help them.