norman wrote:

I have recently downloaded and installed the latest version of ufraw by following the instructions on the ufraw web site. I had expected to be able to drag a raw file into the gimp which would launch ufraw, however, this does not happen.

I'd expect that the documentation for building ufraw tells you how to install it as a gimp plug-in, too. Maybe something at configure time or maybe a link you have to create?

HTH, Michael

On 9/16/07, norman wrote:

I have recently downloaded and installed the latest version of ufraw by following the instructions on the ufraw web site.

Which instructions did you follow? i.e. Exactly how did you install ufraw? Did you do make install as root or did you do the gimp-tool install as the user using gimp? It has always worked for me when I do a sudo make install

norman wrote:

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I'd expect that the documentation for building ufraw tells you how to install it as a gimp plug-in, too. Maybe something at configure time or maybe a link you have to create?

After considerable research I have come to the conclusion that what I am trying to do is not possible. I use Gimp 2.3.18 and it looks as though UFraw will not install as a plug-in with this version. There are no problems with Gimp 2.2.13, as far as I can tell. However, I like Gimp 2.3.18 so I will just have to use UFraw as a stand alone application. Can any one else throw any further light on the situation?

Norman

If you have two gimp installations, compiling ufraw will probably only install the plugin to one of them. If one of them is in a non-standard location it won't be detected. I have a symlink in the plugins directory of my non-standard installation pointing to the plugins directory of the standard installation.

HTH,

Andrew

norman wrote:

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:27 +0200, Andrew wrote:

norman wrote:

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I'd expect that the documentation for building ufraw tells you how to install it as a gimp plug-in, too. Maybe something at configure time or maybe a link you have to create?

After considerable research I have come to the conclusion that what I am trying to do is not possible. I use Gimp 2.3.18 and it looks as though UFraw will not install as a plug-in with this version. There are no problems with Gimp 2.2.13, as far as I can tell. However, I like Gimp 2.3.18 so I will just have to use UFraw as a stand alone application. Can any one else throw any further light on the situation?

Norman

If you have two gimp installations, compiling ufraw will probably only install the plugin to one of them. If one of them is in a non-standard location it won't be detected. I have a symlink in the plugins directory of my non-standard installation pointing to the plugins directory of the standard installation.

I thought that I had removed Gimp 2.2.13 before I installed Gimp 2.3.18. I found the Ubuntu download for UFraw and followed that procedure. UFraw was installed as a plug-in but in Gimp 2.2.13 and not in 2.3.18 which was still there. I removed Gimp 2.2.13 and there was no plug-in.

I am afraid that my Linux knowledge is insufficient to understand what you mean by a symlink and, even if I did, I have no idea how to go about producing one. Sounds like a very good idea, however.

Norman

In my case I did:

ln -s /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp /opt/gimp-2.4.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp

The first path is where the plugin was installed; the second one is where I wanted the link.

HTH,

Andrew

* norman [09-17-07 17:04]:

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In my case I did:

ln -s /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp /opt/gimp-2.4.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp

The first path is where the plugin was installed; the second one is where I wanted the link.

That looks very clever. I will try it out and report back.

Yes, it is. But it is a *normal* bash/*sh shell operation. Much information about these operations may be found in the man and info files, ie:
man ln
info ln

A good text w/information about shell (what runs the command line) operation is RUTE, Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition, available: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

and: The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide available: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf

ps, the ln -s example quoted above is to be presented on ONE line.

Am Montag, den 17.09.2007, 21:42 +0200 schrieb Andrew:

norman wrote:

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:27 +0200, Andrew wrote:

I am afraid that my Linux knowledge is insufficient to understand

what

you mean by a symlink and, even if I did, I have no idea how to go

about

producing one. Sounds like a very good idea, however.

Norman

In my case I did:

ln -s /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp /opt/gimp-2.4.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp

The first path is where the plugin was installed; the second one is where I wanted the link.

Norman is using Ubuntu, so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp /opt/gimp-2.4.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp

(in one line please...) would be better. Under Ubuntu you can't login as root.

Rolf

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