Ubuntu 10.10 and RawTherapee

Installed Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit into my old Dell Inspiron 8600 over the Chinese New Year weekend. Took a while to work out the BCM4306/2 wireless driver (bc43legacy) because of a bug in the firmware installer package. Anyway, I now have a working installation of Maverick on a 27GB ext-4 partition on my little 120GB hard disk.

Turns out that http://www.rawtherapee.com/releases_head/linux/ does not offer a 32-bit build for RawTherapee and that the Maverick package doesn't like EOS 550D raw files... So that left me with no choice but to compile the program from source. It turned out to be relatively painless thanks to the superb instructions located here. Use the suggested "branch_3.0" option. Just change the line that had "drslony" in it to your own home directory name or you will get an error from the tar command.

Took quite awhile on my old machine, but finally:

RawTherapee compiled, installed, and build written to /tmp

Nice...