Fotobuch-XXL on Debian lenny

Tuesday, June 10. 2008

Fotobuch-XXL on Debian lenny

Fotobuch-XXL.de is one of the few providers (if not the only one) that has a native Linux app to create and order photo books. It is annoying that most services only provide versions for Win or Mac, and even web apps are rare. Unfortunately, Fotobuch-XXL only provide their app for the Ubuntu and OpenSuse distributions. But, as Ubuntu is just a derivative of Debian, it should actually not be too complicated to also install the package on Debian. Indeed, it isn’t:

One just has to take care that the Python version in Debian ‘lenny’ is 2.5, and not 2.4, thus forcing you to choose the corresponding package source for Ubuntu Feisty (7.1) and upwards:

CODE:

deb http://www.fotobuch-xxl.de/bin/ubuntu-py25 /

After updating your package list, you can already find fotobuchxxl-studio. However, it also depends on python-wxgtk2.8, which is only available in Debian’s own experimental section. After activating this source, you’re finally able to install fotobuchxxl-studio.

Note that I just tried whether the app actually launches, I neither really used it nor did I order a photo book. Yet.

Posted by Stephan Paukner in GNU/Linux at 17:15 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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