The installation procedure should be quite simple: =============================== Step 0: Preparing configuration =============================== If you got your copy of libgphoto2 packaged as a tarball, SKIP THIS STEP. If you got libgphoto2 using git, then you will have to prepare for step 1, the configuration of the sources. For that, you need to run the `autoreconf` tool from the Autoconf package. It calls several tools in a certain sequence. For autoreconf to work, you need (at least) the following tools: automake autoconf gettext libtool in versions compatible to each other and with gphoto2. In 2021, most halfway current systems should work. If you have just successfully built libgphoto2, then you already have the tools required for building gtkam. ============================= Step 1: Configure the sources ============================= ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc or any other options (try --help) If you have difficulties building on FreeBSD, try --disable-nls or install the gettext port (cd /usr/ports/devel/gettext && make install). =========================== Step 2: Compile the program =========================== To compile and install the program in one step, run make install This installs the software and documentation into the proper directories on your system. If you want to use your system's package system instead, follow a) for RPMs. a) make rpm If you're running a RPM based system (e.g. Redhat Linux or SuSE Linux), you can build RPM packages and install these. The packages will be located in packaging/rpm/RPMS/. ==================================================== Step 4: Installation is finished - now what do I do? ==================================================== At a command line, run gtkam Enjoy!