I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with GNOME 3.36 with the X11 window system. I want to install the elementary OS's Photos app (Pantheon Photos). I don't need anything else. I am happy with GNOME and I'm not trying to install Pantheon or elementary at all.
Note: I am not a power user but a beginner in Linux.
You can install the Elementary Photos application using its source code. First, clone the package using git and cd to the cloned directory:
git clone https://github.com/elementary/photos.git
cd photos
Then follow the steps provided by the Package Maintainer in the project's README:
Building, Testing, and Installation
You'll need the following dependencies:
- desktop-file-utils
- intltool
- libaccounts-glib-dev
- libexif-dev
- libgee-0.8-dev
- libgeocode-glib-dev
- libgexiv2-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgphoto2-dev
- libgranite-dev >= 6.0.0
- libgstreamer1.0-dev
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- libgudev-1.0-dev
- libhandy-1-dev
- libjson-glib-dev
- libraw-dev
- librest-dev
- libsignon-glib-dev
- libsoup2.4-dev
- libsqlite3-dev
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
- libwebp-dev
- libxml2
- meson
- valac >= 0.40
Run
ls cd photos/Run
meson buildto configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and runninjato buildmeson build --prefix=/usr cd build ninjaTo install, use
ninja install, then execute withio.elementary.photossudo ninja install io.elementary.photos
meson build --prefix=/usr command, /usr is the directory, not your username, so you should just run the command as is. In general, --prefix=/path/to/dir is used to specify where the package is going to be installed. In the case of --prefix=/usr, the package will be installed in your /usr directory.
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Jan 17, 2022 at 11:29