install

Choose your OS:

...or get the latest stable source package and build it yourself, look what to do if you are running Windows or get the hot new stuff from our git repository.

 

 

Prerequisites

  • *nix (tested: Ubuntu [Karmic, Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric], Arch Linux, Funtoo, Gentoo, Fedora, Macintosh OS X with Macports)
  • We strongly recommend using a 64bit operating system!
  • Required packages:
    libsqlite3, libjpeg, libpng, libraw (supplied), rawspeed (supplied), gtk+-2, cairo, lcms2, exiv2, tiff, curl, gphoto2, dbus-glib, gnome-keyring, fop, openexr
  • You might need to get lcms2 from Pascal's ppa (see Ubuntu below)
  • Optional: gcc >= 4.4 (OpenMP, earlier versions could not handle OpenMP statements in non-main threads)

 

Ubuntu packages

We provide several PPAs to add to your Ubuntu installation:

  • For stable releases add the Darktable Release PPA.
  • For stable releases plus some extras add the Darktable Release Plus PPA.
  • If you are adventurous and are willing to deal with problems from time to time add the Darktable Unstable PPA. Don't use this PPA if you do time critical work with darktable!
  • Follow the instructions on the Launchpad PPA page.
  • Then search for "darktable" in the Software Center of Synaptic Package Manager and install it.
  • You will find it under "Applications/Graphics/Darktable Photography Workflow Software"

If you want to have nice packages on debian you can rebuild the PPA sources for debian: Download "darktable_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz" and "darktable_$VERSION.debian.tar.gz" from one of the PPAs.

$ tar zxvf darktable_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz
$ cd darktable-$VERSION
$ tar zxvf ../darktable_$VERSION.debian.tar.gz
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Fedora packages

# yum install darktable

openSUSE packages

darktable is on the openSUSE repositories: openSUSE darktable packages.

And there is a repository for nightly builds.

Arch Linux

$ pacman -S darktable
  • thx to chressie for this, arch is non-ancient :)

Funtoo/Gentoo Linux

  • darktable is in portage!
# emerge darktable
$ darktable

Experimental release for mac osx

Microsoft Windows

  • Unfortunately the community of this commercial distro didn't natively build dt yet.
  • But there's a better solution for you to try:
  • Download and burn an iso from Pascal's Ubuntu Remasters.
  • Reboot your machine.

Current release from source

  • Grab the latest source tarball (recent version: darktable 1.0)
  • For convenience, the Ubuntu package list of build dependencies:
    sudo apt-get install intltool libatk1.0-dev libbabl-0.0-0-dev libgegl-0.0-dev libcairo2-dev libexiv2-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgomp1 libgtk2.0-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev liblcms2-dev liblensfun-dev libpng12-dev libsqlite3-dev libstdc++6-4.4-dev libxml2-dev libopenexr-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgphoto2-2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnome-keyring-dev fop librsvg2-dev libflickcurl-dev cmake

    ...or click here to install them.

  • The build prerequisites for Arch Linux are:
    pacman -S sqlite3 libjpeg-turbo libpng libraw gtk2 cairo lcms2 exiv2 libtiff curl gphoto2 dbus-glib gnome-keyring fop openexr cmake git
  • Unpack:
    $ tar xvjf darktable-1.0.tar.gz && cd darktable-1.0
  • Then either do
    $ ./build.sh
  • or, manually:
    $ mkdir build && cd build/
    $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
    $ make -j5
    # make install
    $ darktable
  • In order to get darktable displayed along with your other applications you need to set a symlink:
    $ ln -s /opt/darktable/share/applications/darktable.desktop /usr/share/applications/darktable.desktop

git version

Be sure to have all the build dependencies installed. You can find a list of them here. If you don't have it already, install git from your distribution's repositories. For Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install git

Cloning for the first time

$ cd
$ git clone git://darktable.git.sf.net/gitroot/darktable/darktable

The cloned files from the git repository are now stored in $HOME/darktable.

Building with build.sh

$ cd $HOME/darktable
$ ./build.sh

The files get prepared to be installed in /opt. If you want to install at another place, you have to type:

./build.sh /path/to/install

After the build process finished you can install darktable:

cd build && sudo make install

Updating existing git-files

$ cd $HOME/darktable
$ git pull

Building manually

$ mkdir $HOME/darktable/build
$ cd $HOME/darktable/build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

make and install

$ cd $HOME/darktable/build
$ make
$ sudo make install

Starting the program

$ darktable

Let's rock!