gphoto2

What is gphoto2?

gphoto2 is a command-line frontend to libgphoto2.

Where can I find more information?

Visit the gphoto project web site. It should always be found at least at one of the following URLs:

• http://www.gphoto.com/
• http://www.gphoto.org/
• http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/
• https://github.com/gphoto/
• http://sf.net/projects/gphoto

The man page is in the file gphoto2.1.

How do I build it?

If you have installed libgphoto2 into $HOME/.local and want to install gphoto2 to $HOME/.local as well, keep the PKG_CONFIG_PATH= and --prefix= arguments to configure. Otherwise adapt or remove them.

autoreconf -is  # if using a git clone
./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/.local/lib/pkgconfig${PKG_CONFIG_PATH+":${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"}" --prefix="$HOME/.local"
make
make install

Out-of-tree builds are supported. ./configure --help may help.

To build gphoto2, you will need the following (apart from the common build tools):

• The libgphoto2 library.
• The popt libraries (for commandline option handling), the system package may be called popt-devel or popt-dev or similar.

Optional:

• The EXIF library. (libexif-devel, libexif-dev or similar)
• The JPEG library. (libjpeg-devel, libjpeg-dev, or jpeg-dev or similar)
• The CDK library (for ncurses based configuration UI). (cdk-devel or similar)
• The AALIB library (for ascii art rendering of previews). (aalib-devel or similar)

How do I test it?

make check

The test suite checks the installation and basic functionality of the gphoto2 program and the 'Directory Browse' libgphoto2 camera driver.