Darktable for Sony A6400

The latest APSC camera from Sony, the A6400 (ILCE-6400) has a new raw file format which is not supported by Darktable versions currently* in the Ubuntu repos or in the stable PPAs.

The only way to get darktable to open the RAW files from the A6400is to build the latest (unstable) darktable from source. Steps to do this on a vanilla install of Ubuntu are given in a text file below, also available through a Github Gist.

* as of this writing, Sep 5. 2019

	#!/bin/bash
	### Notice and Usage information
	echo "This script is provided only as a list of reference commands and is not intended to be executed as is."
	echo " "
	echo "Please open this script with a text editor, then read and execute the commands line by line as appropriate"
	echo " "
	echo "Exiting now"
	exit
	### Install Commands begin here
	#Update all existing stuff
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
	# Purge all existing darktable files and data
	sudo apt-get purge darktable
	sudo apt-get purge liblensfun*
	sudo apt-get autoremove
	# Clone the Source
	git clone https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable
	cd darktable
	# Initialise the Submodules as per instructions in README
	git submodule init
	git submodule update
	# Install Dependencies
	# The general idea is to run the build command, i.e.:
	# "./build.sh --prefix /opt/darktable --build-type Release"
	# and see which packages/libraries are reported missing, and to install them.
	# However, the build script reports only missing libraries, so it is a little
	# tedious to figure out the actual names of the package in the Ubuntu repo.
	# This file serves as an aid to help with that.
	# Note that you may not need all the libraries and hence you should not run this file en mass. You might also need other packages NOT listed here so YMMV.
	# sudo apt-get install:
	# - build-essential
	# - cmake
	# - intltool
	# - xsltproc
	# - llvm
	# - libglib2.0-dev
	# - libgtk-3-dev
	# - libgtk-3-0
	# - libgtk-3-bin
	# - libpugixml-dev
	# - libpugixml1v5
	# - libxml2 libxml2-dev
	# - librsvg2-bin
	# - ruby-rsvg2
	# - libsqlite3-0
	# - libsqlite3-dev
	# - libgphoto2-dev
	# - libgphoto2-6
	# - liblcms2-dev
	# - libjson-glib-dev
	# - libexiv2-dev
	## NOTE: DO NOT INSTALL libjpeg- packages. It will conflict with other required stuff and cause a lot of broken stuff.
	#Finally, once the build actually succeeds with no failures, install it using:
	sudo -H cmake --build "/home/kabhijit/Source/darktable/build" --target install -- -j8
	#Test by running:
	which darktable
	#This should now point to something like /opt/darktable/bin/darktable

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