[ome-devel] OME install problems with fedora core 2

[Ilya Goldberg]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Mark Roden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems installing OME version 2.2.1 on a
> completely clean fedora core 2 installation.  I've managed to
> quite a bit further installing the OME server package with
> fedora, as opposed to a piecemeal Redhat 9 installation;
> however, I still have the following problems:
>
> <begin OME install log>
> Would you like to install GD from the repository ? [y/n]: y
>    \_ Downloading
> http://openmicroscopy.org/packages/perl/GD-1.33.tar.gz [SUCCE SS].
>    \_ Unpacking [SUCCESS].
>    \_ Configuring NOTICE: This module requires libgd 1.8.3 or
> higher (shared li brary version 4.X).
> Please choose the features that match how libgd was built:
> Build JPEG support? [y] y
> Build FreeType support? [y] y
> Build XPM support? [y] y
> If you experience compile problems, please check the @INC,
> @LIBPATH and @LIBS
> arrays defined in Makefile.PL and manually adjust, if necessary.
> Writing Makefile for GD
> [SUCCESS].
>    \_ Compiling [FAILURE].
> Errors executing task: Unable to compile module, see
> PerlModuleTask.log for deta ils. at (eval 32) line 1
>        main::run_tasks() called at install.pl line 249
> # Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
> </end OME install log>

Installation output goes to installation log files which are in 
/var/tmp/OME/install/
This is also where any supplementary modules get downloaded and 
installed from - this is where the Makefile in question lives.

GD has unfortunately become a problem child.  Last I checked (several 
months ago), there was no perl RPM for GD.
There is a package for Fedora called something like (this is for a 
64-bit OS):
gd-2.0.21-2.x86_64.rpm
You might as well get these too (I think that's all of them)
gd-progs-2.0.21-2.x86_64.rpm
gd-devel-2.0.21-2.x86_64.rpm
download and install that using yum, red carpet or whatever (the 
version number doesn't matter very much - use "the latest")
Get the Perl bindings for it here:
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.16.tar.gz
then:
tar -zxvf GD-2.16.tar.gz; cd GD-2.16; perl Makefile.PL
answer the questions (just hit return), then
make
make test
(ignore any errors here)
and finally:
sudo make install
(or su to become root then 'make install')

Usually this works.  If it doesn't, let me know.  We should probably 
just turn this thing off because its only used by legacy code 
presently.
-Ilya