Hey everyone,
Since I already own the Z5 ii, I decided to finally get to work and create the noise profiles for darktable, using this tutorial. However, I ran into a problem during the compilation of dt from source and I have no idea how to solve it… do I need to run this from somewhere else or…?
The command:
I’m running Ubuntu 24.04.3 on WSL (Windows 11)
at least for the OBS rpms we ship those tools in a package. and if you use the obs debs for ubuntu they also have a subpackage for darktable-tools-noise which should have all the tools you need. HTH
So… I tried to just install the .deb file hoping that would do it, but the /usr/lib/darktable/tools/ is still empty, so how do I install a subpackage?
That tutorial is missing a few steps, mainly the submodule part. GitHub - darktable-org/darktable: darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
I built darktable from source (I think it was successful? The compilation threw no errors), but there’s still no noise tool:
Did I somehow miss the subpackage?
This is what I ran:
git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git
cd darktable
git submodule update --init <---(no output, I guess ok?)
./build.sh --prefix /opt/darktable --build-type Release --install --sudo
I think you need to compile with the build noise tool on as a flag. Check what are the flag options via --help in build.sh
The help doesn’t mention anything related to the noise tool:
xpizza@Dell-Vostro-15:~/darktable$ ./build.sh --help
build.sh [OPTIONS] [-- [additional cmake configuration options...]]
Options:
Installation:
--prefix <string> Install directory prefix
(default: /opt/darktable)
--sudo Use sudo when doing the install
Build:
--build-dir <string> Building directory
(default: /home/xpizza/darktable/build)
--build-type <string> Build type (Release, Debug, RelWithDebInfo)
(default: RelWithDebInfo)
--build-generator <string> Build tool
(default: Unix Makefiles)
-j --jobs <integer> Number of tasks
(default: number of CPUs)
--asan Enable address sanitizer options
(default: disabled)
Actual actions:
--skip-build Configure but exit before building the binaries
(default: disabled)
--install After building the binaries, install them
(default: disabled)
Cleanup actions:
--clean-build Clean build directory
--clean-install Clean install directory
--clean-all Clean both build and install directories
-f --force Force clean-build to perform removal
ignoring any errors
Additional cmake configuration options:
Options passed as is to the cmake configure command
Features:
By default cmake will enable the features it autodetects on the build machine.
Specifying the option on the command line forces the feature on or off.
All these options have a --disable-* equivalent.
--enable-camera
--enable-colord
--enable-graphicsmagick
--enable-imagemagick
--enable-jxl
--enable-kwallet
--enable-libsecret
--enable-lua
--enable-mac_integration
--enable-map
--enable-opencl
--enable-openexr
--enable-openmp
--enable-unity
--enable-webp
Extra:
-h --help Print help message
try -DBUILD_NOISE_TOOLS=ON
I reinstalled with the -DBUILD_NOISE_TOOLS=ON, but now the /usr/lib/darktable/tools/ directory is empty
Custom builds usually go to /use/local or /opt
You haven’t run the install step then.
I have, I had an --install for the build.sh options when I ran it. Is that not it?
Also… huh? Why is it not there…
EDIT:
I forgot to take a shot at Hi 1.7… I took it and added it.
Should be, strange…
I wonder, would it be possible to do it using a supplied virtual machine with all the software installed? … that would make it a bit easier for the contributors. But I feel like my struggles with the darktable-noiseprofile tool are probably an anomaly and doesn’t justify making a vm for this purpose
I tried to repeat the install process on a Linux Mint laptop that’s laying around, but the same happened – darktable-noiseprofile nowhere to be found and darktable-gen-noiseprofile only exists in the directory where I have cloned darktable.
Alternatively, could anyone please generate the noise profile for me if I supply the images? I have no idea how to get this running or how others do it…
Unless the problem is in installing the submodules somewhere, I feel like it didn’t install what it should have.
Any way to verify this has worked? It doesn’t output anything so it should be good, but idk…
git submodule update --init
Hmm this might be it?
/opt, which makes sense… I’ll try that once I take images at ISO 50, 64 and 80, 'cause of course I didn’t take those 
EDIT:
guys I think we’re cooking:
EDIT 2:
time to check it and submit an issue on Github…
So… here’s a little before and after @ ISO 128,000
Can I load the presets.json somewhere (for the time being) so I wouldn’t have to launch DT from command line with the json file as argument?
You can edit your .desktop file for DT so it includes the json argument
Genius, I didn’t think of that, works perfectly. I could even drag that into the taskbar – hopefully it doesn’t break. In the next update it won’t be needed, but for now it will be a lot easier.
Oh, and I almost forgot - thanks everyone for help!
