[ome-devel] Minor problem with OME installation

[Graham Klyne]

Hi,

<summary>
Neither libjpeg nor libjpeg-devel are mentioned in the file 
Install.RedHat.  libjpeg-devel is not (necessarily) included in the Redhat 
FC2 Linux installation.

Suggest:  add libjpeg and libjpeg-devel to the required modules listed in 
Install.RedHat (and maybe elsewhere).
</summary>

Longer form of report follows...

Background details
------------------

Installing OME 2.2 (? There isn't an obvious version number in the software 
kit -- may I suggest specifying this either in the README or as part of the 
tar file name?) on Fedora FC2 running under VMWare 4.5.2.  (This is a test 
installation environment, the final deployment will run on a "real" computer.

I've checked the installed versions or used "yum install <packages>" for 
all packages mentioned in the doc/INSTALL and doc/INSTALL.RedHat files, and 
the system claims that all are up-to-date, and AFAICT are at least at the 
revision levels required by OME.

On running the OME install script, I get a missing libjpeg error message as 
shown below.  But when I try a yum install libjpeg, yum reports it is 
installed.  I think that either:
(a) the OME install script message is misleading
(b) the OME install script has a library-checking bug

Digging further I find the problem is that module libjpeg-devel is 
missing.  Neither libjpeg nor libjpeg-devel are mentioned in the file 
Install.RedHat.  libjpeg-devel is not (necessarily) included in the FC2 
Linux installation.

Using yum to install libjpeg-devel fixes this error report.

#g
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Attempted OME installation log with error message:

[[
(All verbose information logged in /tmp/LibraryTask.log)

Checking libraries
   \_ libssl 0.9.7 [OK].
   \_ libpng 1.2.8 [OK].
   \_ libjpeg [NOT INSTALLED].
   \_ libtiff 3.5.7 [OK].
   \_ libgd N/A [OK].
   \_ zlib 1.2.1.1 [OK].
   \_ libdb_B-Tree 3 [OK].
   \_ libxml2 2.6.16 [OK].
   \_ libxslt 1.1.12 [OK].
   \_ expat 1.95 [OK].
   \_ bzlib N/A [OK].

One or more libraries is not installed or is of an unsupported version.
Please read the installation notes for your platform in /doc
(INSTALL.FreeBSD for example) for a detailed list of OME's library
dependencies and locations to get packages if available.

If you, for example, have installed all these specific dependencies
beforehand these checks may fail due to a lack of development files and you
may wish to continue anyway.

Would you like to continue ? [y/n]: n

[root at delos OME]# yum install libjpeg
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
libjpeg is installed and is the latest version.
No actions to take
[root at delos OME]#
]]


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Graham Klyne
Image Bioinformatics Laboratory
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
E-mail: <Graham.Klyne at zoo.ox.ac.uk>
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