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| − | You are correct that it wasn't simple to install. | + | You are correct that it wasn't simple to install. I have written some [User:DavidWhitten/Wgraph_Install_Notes notes] of my experiences. |
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| − | One thing that could have helped would be ways to test things.
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| − | like to find out whether ImageMagick (convert) was installed,
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| − | I had to look until I found the source code for ImageMagick.
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| − | I used the command: wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
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| − | I had to installed ImageMagick under the user I was using, rather than installed for the entire website. Let's pretend the user name was fooimg.
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| − | I had to create a "local" directory under the /home/fooimg since I couldn't put anything in /usr/local
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| − | on this machine. I used the command: mkdir local
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| − | And when I did the command install command for ImageMagick, I could not just say ./configure
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| − | like the instructions said, but I had to instead type ./configure --prefix=/home/fooimg/local/
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| − | ( by the way ./configure --prefix=~/local did NOT work, because the "configure" program wanted the actual place on disk to put into its generated script files. )
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| − | Then I had to use "make" to create the convert program...
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| − | The above steps are show in the following log of my command history:
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| − | 16 mkdir local
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| − | 17 cd ImageMagick-6.3.8/
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| − | 18 ./configure --prefix=~/local
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| − | 19 pwd
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| − | 20 ./configure --prefix=/home/fooimg/local/
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| − | 21 cd ..
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| − | 22 ls local/
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| − | 23 cd ImageMagick-6.3.8/
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| − | 24 make
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| − | 25 cd ..
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| − | 26 ls local/
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| − | I tried to install it, and it complained (but might have actually done what I need. I was surprised to find the stuff in the local directory later on:
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| − | 27 cd ImageMagick-6.3.8/
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| − | 28 make install
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| − | I ultimate got the computer to find the convert program for me, since I didn't know where it was put:
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| − | 34 find . -print | grep convert
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| − | 35 ./utilities/convert
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| − | I was doing this, because I wanted Wgraph (and mediawiki) to use the convert program to make thumbnails.
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| − | I used tar with xvzf (extract,verbose,compressed file) on the file I got here : aiSee_linux.tgz ((Thanks by the way))
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| − | 127 wget http://www.absint.com/dla/wgraph/aiSee_linux.tgz
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| − | 128 tar xvzf /home/visvis/aiSee_linux.tgz
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| − | 129 ls
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| − | 130 cd aiSee/
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| − | 131 ls
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| − | 132 lynx .
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| − | 133 ./setup
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| − | I had already purchased a license for aiSee for a different project, by the way.
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| − | by the way, this created a directory named aiSee which I later had to rename as aisee (without the capital letter)
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| − | because somewhere the directory was referenced without the capital letter.
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| − | I tried running bin/aisee.bin and it complained about libXext not being available. I had to use apt-get to retrieve it (since I don't run X windows on this server)
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| − | I got your Recode executable and moved it into the bin directory under /home/fooimg/public_html/Wgraph
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| − | mv recode ../Wgraph/linux/bin/
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| − | I did a lot of stuff, and I have the log which means I can tell you the steps, but just remember, I started from scratch, no mediawiki, no wgraph, no aisee, no ImageMagick, no X-windows extension library so I probably had to do stuff which a lot of people might not need to do.
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Yea! I just got Wgraph working on a private wiki.
As I understand it, it only generates svg and png files.
I wonder what would be necessary to generate image maps ?
Image maps might be somewhat complicated. But there is a good alternative: use the 'href' attribute for nodes.
BTW: It is not really simple to install Wgraph. Did you have problems? Are you using Windows or Unix? Do you see the need for improving the installation description?
You are correct that it wasn't simple to install. I have written some [User:DavidWhitten/Wgraph_Install_Notes notes] of my experiences.
