Revision as of 18:44, 11 August 2012

gphoto2 is a utility to download pictures from a digital camera.

SUSE Linux 12.1

yast -i libgphoto2-devel

download the source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/gphoto/
extract it, in this example version 2.4.14:

cd
tar xvzf Downloads/gphoto2-2.4.14.tar.gz
cd gphoto2-2.4.14/

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-[[USB]] to serial adaptors allow you to use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS232 RS232] based hardware via a computer's USB port.
+gphoto2 is a utility to download pictures from a [[digital camera]].
-I bought SiteCom's USB to serial cable and it works perfect with Linux:
+To [[build]] and [[install]] it, [[find out your distribution]] and proceed accordingly
-* [[open a console]]
-* attach the adaptor
-* read the syslog using the command
- dmesg
-* in the syslog you will find some lines reading like
-<pre>
-[51904.256210] usb 2-1.6: new full speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
-[51904.341896] usb 2-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
-[51904.341904] usb 2-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
-[51904.341909] usb 2-1.6: Product: USB-Serial Controller D
-[51904.341912] usb 2-1.6: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
-[51904.342508] hdj_probe() unsupported device, idVendor67b, idProduct:2303
-[51904.342540] pl2303 2-1.6:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
-[51904.344545] usb 2-1.6: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
-</pre>
-= See also =
+= SUSE Linux 12.1 =
-* [[hardwAre]]
+* [[open a console]] as root and [[install]] some [[dependencies]]:
+ [[yast]] -i libgphoto2-devel
+* download the source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/gphoto/
+* [[extract]] it, in this example version 2.4.14:
+ cd
+ [[tar]] xvzf Downloads/gphoto2-2.4.14.tar.gz
+ cd gphoto2-2.4.14/