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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:06:25 -0700 From: "Rafael Skodlar,,," <raffi@linwin.com> To: George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] another image display system... George Georgalis wrote: > I'm looking for something like http://ids.sourceforge.net > > and/or a guest book. but this is the only apache "image display system" > I can find. is there a page with similar apps linked, or do you know > any? You may find something here: http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Image_Galleries/ I happened to look into something similar last night and tonight to create an index of photos I want to put on my web server. Besides that I needed to change the size and brightness in over 150 pictures. I decided to write a short script to do that for me. Resizing was not a problem but "display" command doesn't change the brightness (Redhat7.2). Looking for software to manipulate graphics some other way I came across PerlMagic. The following happens during installation attempt: perl Makefile.PL Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lfpx Writing Makefile for Image::Magick make gcc -c -I../ -I.. -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -DVERSION=\"5.31\" -DXS_VERSION=\"5.31\" -fPIC -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H Magick.c Magick.xs:76:24: magick/api.h: No such file or directory make: *** [Magick.o] Error 1 That's on Redhat 7.2 with "everything installed". It's useless. Tried to use the same thing on Debian: ark:~# apt-get install perlmagick Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perlmagick: Depends: libmagick5 (= 4:5.4.4.5-1) but 4:5.4.7.1-1 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages ark:~# apt-get install libmagick5 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libmagick5 is already the newest version. So don't tell me that one distribution is any better than the other. I installed RH8.0 at work on Dell machine today. It doesn't bring the network up (3COM interface). Previous versions (7.0, 7.2) and Mandrake installed without problem. Go figure! I know there is a bunch of people out there who will say, go compile from the sources etc. Who the hell has all the time to play with this, i.e. try to figure out why the whole distribution (RH7.2) is not able to compile simple (?) thing like PerlMagick. Compiling from sources was working better 4 years ago than it does now. And what's the point making useless packages? Too many other important things to do than mess with packages. It makes you curl your hair: http://www.remotepoint.com/~jordanh/gallery/index.cgi?mode=image&album=/Pictures/Places%5fand%5fThings/Miscellaneous&image=01%20Unix%20Stylist%20Hair%20Dryer.jpg ===