Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

Hello

I am in great need of some detailed instructions to install the dcraw and the necessary plugins to open my Canon EOS350D *.cr2 files. I am using Fedora 4 and I already made a lot of trials....
I am going bananas... please give me some details on the instructions
Thanx

Orlando

I don't have experience with EOS350 but I do have fantastic experience with ufraw. I had trouble install dcraw but ufraw is fantastic. There are libraries and stuff to install and there are two versions. A plugin and a standalone version. Very very good application. Stable and full featured. I recommend ufraw to anyone wanting to alter and use raw files. You might want to see if your raw files from the Canon are supported.

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20.57, Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

Hello
I am in great need of some detailed instructions to install the dcraw and the necessary plugins to open my Canon EOS350D *.cr2 files. I am using Fedora 4 and I already made a lot of trials.... I am going bananas... please give me some details on the instructions Thanx
Orlando

Have you checked http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ Thats where i found "my" instructions to get it to work. I also use http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

Try ufraw (http://ufraw.sf.net) or bibblelite (http://bibblelabs.com/) too. Bibble is trial software but very good and simple to use IMO, and ufraw got a few nice new features in it's latest release although I find it's actually harder to use sometimes than 0.4..

Donncha.

Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

Hello

I am in great need of some detailed instructions to install the dcraw and the necessary plugins to open my Canon EOS350D *.cr2 files. I am using Fedora 4 and I already made a lot of trials....
I am going bananas... please give me some details on the instructions
Thanx

Orlando

* nicholas [10-11-05 18:40]:

I don't have experience with EOS350 but I do have fantastic experience with ufraw. I had trouble install dcraw but ufraw is fantastic. There are libraries and stuff to install and there are two versions. A plugin and a standalone version. Very very good application. Stable and full featured. I recommend ufraw to anyone wanting to alter and use raw files. You might want to see if your raw files from the Canon are supported.

I agree, ufraw is *very* good. Only problem, does not include exif info in the new file.

On 10/11/05, Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

Hello

I am in great need of some detailed instructions to install the dcraw and the necessary plugins to open my Canon EOS350D *.cr2 files. I am using Fedora 4 and I already made a lot of trials....

I am going bananas... please give me some details on the instructions

I don't know about Fedora, but I do know some distributions provide binary packages for dcraw. I know that Ubuntu (and Debian) provide packages for dcraw AND ufraw in at least one of their repositries; when/if you get such as system up, the packages can be installed by executing the command:
"aptitude install gimp-dcraw"
OR
"aptitude install gimp-ufraw"
(or replace aptitude with apt-get if you so desire) as root or under su or sudo (latter requires set-up by installing sudo and running visudo as root and then editing the sudoers file).

Ubuntu also has a graphical package manager, which Fedora migrators may like.

I'm sure Fedora is a great system, when/if it works -- but I have never successfully used it on one of my systems (particularly due to obscure hardware -- but that's another story, and not techincally Fedora's fault).

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On Tue 11-Oct-2005 at 19:57 +0100, Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

I am in great need of some detailed instructions to install the dcraw and the necessary plugins to open my Canon EOS350D *.cr2 files. I am using Fedora 4 and I already made a lot of trials....

Dcraw is actually part of Fedora fc4 extras, you should be able to get it like so:

yum install dcraw

(Though this doesn't give you any of the raw plugins for the gimp)

On Wed 12-Oct-2005 at 14:44 +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:

Dcraw is actually part of Fedora fc4 extras, you should be able to get it like so:

yum install dcraw

(Though this doesn't give you any of the raw plugins for the gimp)

For that you need ufraw:

yum install ufraw

On 10/12/05, Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

Thanks everybody for your sugestions and posts. I was abble to install the ufraw plugin using yum... Now, in the open window of gimp I can chosse the option to open the raw format and it also includes *.cr2 which is the eos350D format. The problem is that when I click to open the image I get a message that says that eos350D is not suppoeted yet.
I went to Dave Coffin's home page
and I checked the
list and the eos350d is there. So I am confused and do not know what the next step is?
Any ideas??

Maybe you have an outdated dcraw package, or you are missing a plugin or similar. In such circumstances, the solution would to go through the painstaking process of downloading gimp development packages for your distribution, and building dcraw from source.

Logically, my head tells me that

yum install gimp-devel

should work, although I've never used Fedora, as above.

Then, presuming you have necessary packages like tar, gzip, make and gcc on your system (I don't remember if they're part of Fedora's default install) you can simply go:

tar -xvzf dcraw-x-y-z.tar.gz cd dcraw-x-y-z
./configure
make

and then

# make install

[meaning run "make install" as root, either via su, sudo, or under root from a terminal login]

similar to many other programs when building from source. But there's no research behind this -- and hopefully dcraw comes with better and/or more detailed instructions in the package (if any).

Like above, this is all guesses, and more likely than not unhelpful. A user of Fedora probably has a better answer.

Thanks a lot... I really appreciated the previous help and please keep helping me
Orlando

2005/10/12, Bruno Postle :

On Wed 12-Oct-2005 at 14:44 +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:

Dcraw is actually part of Fedora fc4 extras, you should be able to get it like so:

yum install dcraw

(Though this doesn't give you any of the raw plugins for the gimp)

For that you need ufraw:

yum install ufraw

-- Bruno

On Thursday 13 October 2005 04.37, michael chang wrote:

On 10/12/05, Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

Thanks everybody for your sugestions and posts. I was abble to install the ufraw plugin using yum... Now, in the open window of gimp I can chosse the option to open the raw format and it also includes *.cr2 which is the eos350D format. The problem is that when I click to open the image I get a message that says that eos350D is not suppoeted yet.
I went to Dave Coffin's home page
and I checked the
list and the eos350d is there. So I am confused and do not know what the next step is?
Any ideas??

Maybe you have an outdated dcraw package, or you are missing a plugin or similar. In such circumstances, the solution would to go through the painstaking process of downloading gimp development packages for your distribution, and building dcraw from source.

Logically, my head tells me that

yum install gimp-devel

should work, although I've never used Fedora, as above.

Then, presuming you have necessary packages like tar, gzip, make and gcc on your system (I don't remember if they're part of Fedora's default install) you can simply go:

tar -xvzf dcraw-x-y-z.tar.gz cd dcraw-x-y-z
./configure
make

and then

# make install

[meaning run "make install" as root, either via su, sudo, or under root from a terminal login]

similar to many other programs when building from source. But there's no research behind this -- and hopefully dcraw comes with better and/or more detailed instructions in the package (if any).

Like above, this is all guesses, and more likely than not unhelpful. A user of Fedora probably has a better answer.

Thanks a lot... I really appreciated the previous help and please keep helping me
Orlando

2005/10/12, Bruno Postle :

On Wed 12-Oct-2005 at 14:44 +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:

Dcraw is actually part of Fedora fc4 extras, you should be able to get it like so:

yum install dcraw

(Though this doesn't give you any of the raw plugins for the gimp)

For that you need ufraw:

yum install ufraw

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As i wrote in my previous reply; check http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html There is a Feodora - Core 4 Extras link there It points to
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/repoview/ufraw-0-0.4-2.html "ufraw: GIMP plugin to retrieve raw image data from digital cameras"

If you do go the way and compile from source, the tarball contains a very nice README that explains almost everything needed to compile.

I haven't had any problems compiling it to get my Pentax *istDS .pef support.

Good luck!

On Wed 12-Oct-2005 at 19:00 +0100, Orlando Figueiredo wrote:

I went to Dave Coffin's home page and I checked the list
and the eos350d is there. So I am confused and do not know what the next step is?

Ok, I was having trouble with the old FC4 dcraw RPM too, so I've rebuilt a fresh one:

http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/apt/fedora/linux/4/i386/RPMS.panorama/

This is the command-line tool *not* the urfaw gimp plugin, so you need to use it in a shell like so:

dcraw -w /path/to/myphoto.cr2

It will create an 8bit per channel ppm image in the same folder as the original, you can then open this with the gimp.

If you want to make use of the higher dynamic range of the RAW image, dcraw can output a 16bit per channel ppm instead. Though if you want to edit it you have to use cinepaint or wait for the gimp developers to finish GEGL.

Bruno Postle postle.net> writes:

If you want to make use of the higher dynamic range of the RAW image, dcraw can output a 16bit per channel ppm instead. Though if you want to edit it you have to use cinepaint or wait for the gimp developers to finish GEGL.

dcraw is nice, but ufraw gives You ability to make decisions on fly. I found that the version 0.5 available from their site (there is a link to FC4 RPM-s) works, but doesn't include the command line tool and it did manage to mess the image data up somehow when sending it to gimp. So I built a latest CVS version for FC4. Grab it here:
ftp://ftp.smartlink.ee/pub/RPMS/ufraw-0.5cvs20051025-1.cyb.i386.rpm

Works well with my CR2 files from EOS350D