Linux and my Digital Camera
So here’s my problem (and I will post at Linux4All on Delphi and GoJabber and hope to get help and then put the solution here – optimist that I am – so I can use it next time)
At work I run Red Hat Linux 9 and I have a Canon Powershot S400 Digital Camera.
I don’t know how to get it so I can view my pictures from Red Hat.
Red Hat doesn’t seem to see my camera as a USB drive when I connect the cable from the camera to the USB port.
So I found some instructions from Red Hat 7.x but I can’t get it to work or maybe I didn’t try hard enough.
Anywayz, here’s hoping I figure it out so when I re-install Mandrake on my home computer and eradicate Windows XP that I can figure out what to do then too.
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follow up: haven’t posted it anywhere else
But I did go to http://www.gphoto.org and downloaded the newer versions of libgphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkcam but somehow i didn’t figure out the install correctly. Meaning I’m not sure where the executables went, in say /usr directories, or in the scratch directory I saved the gzipped files to.
Also, what’s $PKG_CONFIG_PATH? I think i set it correctly but not knowing if I have the correct locations makes it kinda difficult.
Then it seems that I don’t have the required version of gtk+- (for gtkcam) so I just wasn’t in the mood to go find that and update that .. yeech so I deleted everything because when I ran what I think is my updated gphoto2 –list-cameras it still didn’t list my camera.
See, this is why I like Debian and Mandrake, for apt-get and urpmi…I like being able to update online from the command line. I guess I better find that delphi thread (apt-get for Red Hat). However both Debian and Mandrake haven’t been happy installed on my system at home…*grumble* – but I’ll save that for another day.
Comment by Lily — Wednesday 3rd, March 2004 @ 3:54 pm