How to get digiKam from git master repository Stage 1: Install external dependencies digiKam requires a lot of libraries. So, before compiling yourself digiKam, you’ll have to download and install them.
The up to date dependencies list is given in the developer documentation available in this section
Most of these dependencies will be available as developement packages from your Linux distribution, generally with a “-devel” postfix (as libgphoto2-devel for ex), and can be installed separatly using the system packages manager as apt (Ubuntu, Debian, …), yum (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, …), zipper (Suse, OpenSuse, …), etc.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/download/git/