Darktable from source on Mint 20.2

Software
1

I’ve been running Mint Linux 19.something for several years. I have been compiling darktable from source on 19.something.

But today, after installing Mint 20.2 I was unable to fight through the dependencies.

from a …/darktable/build directory
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/darktable/ …

now passes various dependency tests until:
External project “pugixml” has no SOURCE_DIR

sudo apt-cache search pugixml shows only
libpugixml-dev and
libpugixml1v5 …both of which I installed without fixing the error.

Do I have to clone and do something with pugixml sources from github? Right now I’m stuck on this one.

2

I recently installed POPos and I was going to use the Ubuntu instructions but the Debian ones were simple so I tried it…worked fine I had all the dependencies and it built fine…

I am not a linux guy but this might actually work for you , ie either the Ubuntu or Debian instructions taken from the install instructions here

Ubuntu
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

Debian
sudo apt-get build-dep darktable

3

Interesting. I’ve been diverted. This new Mint Linux 20.2 produces no sound, and it seems to be a common problem. So I’m fighting with that now…and thinking about going back to openSuse, after Mint for the last 7 or 8 years.

4

Im primarily running Windows and I have done the VM thing and dual booting various flavours for short periods…but I did recently download… https://pop.system76.com/ POPos and its seems really easy to use and very attractive on the eye simple clean interface…It may get me to switch over time but the best thing is that I installed it and no bootloader installed so I can just use my motherboard key and select the drive its on and it boots …in the past I always got tangled up with the grub bootloader…I installed the dependencies and DT builds with the script so all good on this front for me…

5

Perhaps this would be obvious to others.

git submodule update --init --recursive --progress
build.sh
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/darktable/ …

…and it built on Mint 20.2
I didn’t run the build.sh script the first time around.