Camera Help

[Alexander Apprich]

Brad,

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> My daughter has a Canon digital Rebel which I borrowed.  I'm 
> tring to now get the photos off of her camera and onto my hard 
> drive.
> 
> Gphoto should work but the version that came on with my software 
> (Red Hat 9) is too old to inculde this camera.  I downloaded an 
> RPM for it (gphoto2-2.1.4-7) and did an rpm -U gphoto....
> 
> It seemed to work but only the old version came up.  I tried 
> erasing the old version  and reinstalled and got the message that 
> it was already installed.  I tried to use force, replacefiles and 
> replacepkgs none of which worked.
> 
> Now I am looking for a solution - either to find out how to 
> install gphoto (and maybe where to get it if I need a new copy) 
> OR some other package that will do the same.
> 

Not sure if I can provide a solution, but if the old version is
always poping up, maybe you have a "private" version of gphoto
installed somewhere. What does

    which gphoto2

tell you? Is it located in /usr/bin?

> Thanks,
> 

Alex