Debian GNU/Linux (etch) - phpfspot Install Howto¶

1. Install the necessary requirements

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 
sudo apt-get install apache2 
sudo apt-get install php5-cli libapache2-mod-php5 php5-sqlite3 php5-gd php-pear smarty
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

sudo pear upgrade-all (be careful! perhaps other applications on your server don't like newer pear package versions)
sudo pear install "channel://pear.php.net/Calendar-0.5.3" 
sudo pear install "channel://pear.php.net/HTML_AJAX-0.5.2" 
sudo pear install Date

2. Extract the phpfspot tarball below the webservers document root (defaults to /var/www)

cd /var/www
sudo tar zxf /home/admin/phpfspot-x.x.tar.gz
sudo ln -s phpfspot-x.x phpfspot
cd phpfspot

3. Configure phpfspot

sudo cp -a phpfspot_cfg.php.dist phpfspot_cfg.php
sudoedit phpfspot_cfg.php -> read the comments

4. Create database directory and set some permissions

sudo mkdir /var/www/f-spot-dbs
sudo chown www-data.root /var/www/f-spot-dbs
sudo chown www-data.root /var/www/phpfspot/thumbs /var/www/phpfspot/templates_c

5. Copy F-Spot photo directory to the webserver

scp -r ~/Photos someuser@somehost:/var/www/
sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/Photos

6. Copy F-Spot sqlite database to the webserver

scp ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db someuser@somehost:/var/www/f-spot-dbs/

7. Pre-create thumbnails

cd /var/www/phpfspot
"./gen_thumbs.php" or "php gen_thumbs.php" 

Hopefully all works now.

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PHP5 ImageMagick Support via PECL module:

sudo aptitude install libgraphicsmagick1-dev libmagick9-dev
sudo pecl install imagic

Edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and add the line

extension=imagick.so

near the other 'extension' lines.