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Build instructions for Ubuntu
See also the old version migrated from redmine: Building-darktable
The following code snippet is essentially equivalent to opening the "Software & Updates" program, selecting the "Source code" checkbox, hitting the "Update" button, running sudo apt-get build-dep darktable
, and finally deselecting the
"Source code" checkbox. All lines must be pasted at once into a terminal.
sed -e '/^#\sdeb-src /s/^# *//;t;d' "/etc/apt/sources.list" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/darktable-sources-tmp.list > /dev/null \
&& ( sudo apt-get update \
&& sudo apt-get build-dep darktable \
); sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/darktable-sources-tmp.list
Alternatively, you can install the required packages with:
sudo apt install cmake llvm clang clang-tools intltool xsltproc libsaxon-java libxml2-utils libimage-exiftool-perl zlib1g-dev libpugixml-dev libjpeg-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev librsvg2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libtiff-dev liblcms2-dev libjson-glib-dev libexiv2-dev
And some useful optional packages with:
sudo apt install libgphoto2-dev liblensfun-dev libgmic-dev libcolord-dev libcolord-gtk-dev libgraphicsmagick1-dev liblua5.4-dev libedit-dev libimath-dev libavif-dev libportmidi-dev libopenjp2-7-dev libsecret-1-dev libsdl2-dev openexr-dev libosmgpsmap-1.0-dev libcups2-dev
(This has been tested with Ubuntu 24.04 and Darktable 4.7.)
Since perl
is guaranteed to be installed, we can use it to download the latest release. The DT_VER
environment variable is only for the purposes of these installation commands, so that the version can be adjusted in a single place.
DT_VER=3.0.0
perl -e "use LWP::Simple; getstore( \
'https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-$DT_VER/darktable-$DT_VER.tar.xz', \
'$HOME/Downloads/darktable-$DT_VER.tar.xz');"
cd ~/Downloads && tar xvf darktable-$DT_VER.tar.xz && rm darktable-$DT_VER.tar.xz && cd darktable-$DT_VER
./build.sh
sudo cmake --build "/home/user/Downloads/darktable-$DT_VER/build" --target install -- -j8
Create a link for the program shortcut and corresponding icon.
sudo ln -s /opt/darktable/share/applications/darktable.desktop /usr/share/applications/darktable.desktop
sudo ln -s /opt/darktable/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/darktable.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/darktable.svg
Now you should be able to run Darktable from the program shortcut, or from the command line via
/opt/darktable/bin/darktable
In order to add darktable
to the path so that the prefix /opt/darktable/bin/
is unnecessary, run
export PATH="/opt/darktable/bin:$PATH"
In order to set the prefix automatically, after your next login, run
echo export PATH=\"/opt/darktable/bin:\$PATH\" >> ~/.profile
To uninstall Darktable, it suffices to delete /opt/darktable-x.y.z
and the links:
sudo rm -rf /opt/darktable-x.y.z
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/darktable.desktop
sudo rm /usr/share/pixmaps/darktable.svg
User-level configuration data is stored in ~/.config/darktable
.
Note: this does not uninstall the prerequisites downloaded at the beginning.
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