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5 <title>Installing Geeqie</title>
10 <p>Geeqie is available as a package with some distributions.</p>
12 The source tar of the latest formal release may be downloaded:
13 <a href="http://geeqie.org/geeqie-1.3.tar.xz">http://geeqie.org/geeqie-1.3.tar.xz</a>
15 <p>However Geeqie is stable, and you may download the latest version (if you have installed git) from here:</p>
18 <code>git clone git://www.geeqie.org/geeqie.git</code>
22 <code>git clone http://www.geeqie.org/git/geeqie.git</code>
27 <code>./autogen.sh --help</code>
31 <code>./autogen.sh --disable-gtk3</code>
36 <code>./autogen.sh [options]; make -j<no. of cpu cores></code>
40 <code>[sudo] make install</code>
44 <code>[sudo] make uninstall</code>
47 <p>The zip and gzip files at geeqie.org and GitHub contain only the sources - they cannot, by themselves, be used to install Geeqie.</p>
49 It is recommended to always use
50 <code>git clone git://www.geeqie.org/geeqie.git</code>
51 to download Geeqie. After installing Geeqie you may delete the folder you have cloned Geeqie into.
53 <p>However if you leave the folder intact, whenever new features or patches are available, execute:</p>
55 <code>git pull; sudo make uninstall; sudo make maintainer-clean; ./autogen.sh; make -j<no. of cpu cores>; sudo make install</code>
57 <p>Only the changed sources are downloaded, which makes this a quick operation.</p>
58 <p>Your configuration file, history file and desktop files are not affected by this process.</p>
59 <h2>Notes and changes for the latest release</h2>
61 See the NEWS file in the installation folder, or
62 <a href="https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/blob/master/NEWS">Geeqie News at GitHub</a>
65 And either the ChangeLog file or
66 <a href="http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git;a=shortlog">Geeqie ChangeLog</a>
69 <h3>Required libraries:</h3>
75 disable with configure option: --disable-gtk3
78 disabled by default when GTK+3 libraries are found.
79 enable with configure option: --disable-gtk3
80 optional items map display and GPU acceleration are not available
83 Note: GTK+3 is still somehow experimental. It is needed for some
84 features but we have several complains about the GTK+3 usability.
86 So if you need a stable version, you are advised to compile it
87 with GTK+2. If you want to play with the cool new features, use
91 <h3>Optional libraries:</h3>
98 for color management support
100 disable with configure option: --disable-lcms
104 for enhanced exif support
106 disable with configure option: --disable-exiv2
110 for remote control support
112 disable with configure option: --disable-lirc
114 libchamplain-gtk 0.12
117 wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libchamplain
120 disable with configure option: --disable-map
123 www.clutter-project.org
124 for GPU acceleration (a check-box on Preferences/Image must also be ticked)
126 disable with configure option: --disable-gpu-accel
127 explicitly disabling will also disable the map feature
131 support for lua scripting
133 disable with configure option: --disable-lua
136 for displaying .svg images
139 for displaying .wmf images
141 (see also "Additional pixbuf loaders" in the References section of the Help file)
144 when running Geeqie, to use the geo-decode function
147 when compiling Geeqie, to create this file in html format
149 libffmpegthumbnailer 2.1.0
150 for thumbnailing camera video clips
152 disable with configure option: --disable-libffmpegthumbnailer