Help: Installation of Mapivi (IPTC Picture-Organizer) & Tk::JPEG

[philxxx]

Hi,

I switched from Mac OS X to Ubuntu a few weeks ago after my iBook died and went through a steep learning curve
I've succesfully updated most important apps, tried KDE (and witched back to GNOME) but now I'm stucked with the installation of Mapivi.

Mapivi (http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml) is an opensource picture manager that supports IPTC metadata.

Under Mac OS X and Windows there are different applications available, but it seems that mapivi is the only program that really supports IPTC - very important for me.

Unfortunately I'm unable to get a running mapivi-system on my Ubuntu v5.10.
I think I've read every manual and stumbled through a lot of posts asking for help.

Before I post the error messages I got, I would like to ask if there is ANYBODY out there who is using mapivi on ubuntu or who can point me to another application supporting IPTC metadata?

Following the installation requirements for mapivi, it seems that the problem is that I can't get Tk::JPEG module installed.

So to sum up:
1) has anybody installed Tk::JPEG on Ubuntu and can post a short howto?
2) has anybody installed mapivi?

I like linux, but I can't believe that there is no soulution for picture organizing using ITPC-metadata...

regards from berlin / germany

p hil

[Martin-Herrmann]

Hi,

you should install the newest version of Perl/Tk (http://search.cpan.org/~ni-s/Tk-804.027/).
This version includes Tk::JPEG.
Following these steps: unzip, unpack, perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, sudo make install.
I had to install several other packages using apt-get (cc, gcc, X11-Include files etc.) on my Ubuntu v5.10 first.
Please drop me an email if you need further assistance.

Regards,
Martin - Author of Mapivi

[Martin-Herrmann]

Hi again,

I repeated the Mapivi installation on another Ubuntu 5.10 system today.
Here are the steps needed.

First, to install Perl-Tk you need some other packages:
> sudo apt-get install make
> sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
> sudo apt-get install gcc
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> sudo apt-get install libncourses5-dev (I'm not really sure if this is needed)
> sudo apt-get install libstdc++6-dev (I'm not really sure if this is needed)

Then download Perl/Tk (http://search.cpan.org/~ni-s/Tk-804.027/), unzip and unpack it and change to the unpacked directory Tk-804-027.
Then:
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test (some tests may fail, that's no problem)
> sudo make install

Now Perl-Tk is installed.

The next step is to install two more Perl modules.
Download
http://search.cpan.org/~bettelli/Ima...ata-JPEG-0.15/ and
http://search.cpan.org/~tels/Image-Info-1.21/

For each unzip, unpack and enter into the directory and do
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> sudo make install

Now you should be able to start Mapivi by simply typing
> mapivi
in the mapivi directory.
If it is working you may copy mapivi to e.g. /usr/local/bin/.

You may later add the optional modules:
http://search.cpan.org/~xpix/Tk-ResizeButton-0.01/
http://search.cpan.org/~whom/Tk-MatchEntry-0.4/
with the same procedure like described above.

Regards, Martin

[Martin-Herrmann]

Warning!

Perl/Tk 804.027 has a bug, all Perl/Tk apps crash with a segfault when run
alongside GTK apps, when a GTK version later than 2.8.0 is used.

But here is the bug description and a bug fix:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...erl/+bug/27261

Here is a brief description how I applied the bug fix:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...erl%2Ftk+gnome

Since applying that patch my Perl/Tk applications no longer crash when starting Gnome or GTK applications, like Nautilus, GIMP, etc.!

Regards, Martin

[salguod]

I was able to install Perl-tk with "sudo apt-get install perl-tk"
douglas

[salguod]

ok, well now mapivi works but....
First, while playing with the options (preferences) I tried out several fonts because I find the default one to be rather ugly. one of the fonts I chose is worse than the original and i cannot change it back because the "apply" button has dissappeared!

Second, i can only use Mapivi when I open it as root in terminal. When I try to run it as my user it I get an error than It cannot create or access a file it needs.

These are the messages:
"Mapici would like to create a directory /home/douglas/.maprogs/mapivi in your home directory to store the configuration of MApivi and some button and background pictures"

I click "OK" then:
"Error making configdir /home/douglas/.maprogs/mapivi: Permission denied"
I click OK again, then the progam opens, but in the original form, without the reformated fonts. It seems to work Ok, but I cannot quit the program!

When I chose to quit, I get another error message:
"can't create /home/douglas/.maprogs/mapiviSearchDataBase: Permission denied at mapivi line 5696"

I click ok, the message goes away and the program stays open.

The only way I can quit is to shut down the computer.

Is there any way to uninstall mapivi so I can reinstall it as user (i installed it as root)?

salguod

[salguod]

ok, I made progress. I blieve it is fully funcional now.

The issue I had was the "hidden" file called ".mapivi" in my home directory. I deleted it then ran mapivi again as user (not root), which made a new one.

Deleting it wasn't so simple though...
I had to go to into my home folder in terminal (konsole): cd /home/douglas/

to list "hidden" files in terminal, i used "ls -a"

to see their permissions, i used "ls -al"

i changed the .maprogs permissions with chmod: chmod a+rwx .maprogs

then i went to konqueror (i guess that would be nautilus for ubuntu), chose to "show hidden files" in the "view" menu, then moved it to the trash then smptied the trash.

that's it!

[salguod]

oops, the hidden file in the second sentence is called ".maprogs" not ".mapivi"
sorry for the confusion

[Scunizi]

I have an error in line 193 (use Image::Info qw(image_info dim); when running perl mapivi. Since I'm running Dapper 6.06 I have not applied the patch listed above. Is the patch related to the error I'm getting?

[Martin-Herrmann]

Hi,

what kind of error do you get?
I would assume, that the Perl module Image::Info is missing.
You will find information about the Mapivi requirements (needed modules) here: Mapivi Requirements.

Regards
Martin