Third Party Application Installation

In order to read, write and parse images, documents and videos we make use of some excellent open source applications. In order for Razuna to use them you will need to install them first. Please follow the guidelines below according to your operating system.

Linux

If you want to run Razuna on Ubuntu then you can use the enclosed Software Update application to install the latest build of ImageMagick, Ghostscript, FFMpeg and Exiftool. If you run CentOS/RedHat or Suse, we recommend to download the latest builds and compile them. Please follow the steps below.

Ghostscript

Download the latest (as of this writing 8.70 release) of Ghostscript at http://ghostscript.com/releases/. After unpacking follow it with a:

and a:

Make a symbolic link in "/usr/bin" for Ghostscript with:

ImageMagick

Get the latest version from http://www.imagemagick.org. Then install or check that all the needed libraries are installed with:

Then configure ImageMagick with (command should be on one line):

Followed by a:

If all worked well you should see something like this when issuing the command:

FFMpeg

(These versions are also available within the "Installation/Application" folder of your download!)

Dedicated pages are available for:

FFmpeg Installation for Ubuntu
FFMpeg Installation on CentOS and RedHat

Exiftool

Simply copy over the provided folder to your system. The exiftool script can be run right away without the need to install. Just run ./exiftool to check if it works.
On Ubuntu you can also use "apt-get" to get a precompiled version for your system. You can also compile your own version. Please follow the instructions at http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html.

Note
Some Perl installations (like the standard OSX installation) may not contain the necessary files to complete the first step above.  But no worries:  You can install ExifTool manually by moving 'exiftool' and the 'lib' directory to any directory in your current PATH (ie. /usr/bin). More information is available over at  http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/.

Wget

Wget should already be installed, if not simply install it with "apt-get install wget" or your commands for installed applications. You can also grab the latest build from the official Wget homepage.

DCRaw & ufraw (optional)

Razuna is able to work with RAW images from different digital cameras. In order for Razuna to work with RAW images you will need to install "DCRAW" and "ufraw". To install those two libraries either download and compile them install them from your distribution repositories. Under Ubuntu this is done with:

MacOS X

There are two way to install ImageMagick, Ghostscript and FFMpeg on MacOS X. You can either install them with HomeBrew or with MacPorts.

As of November 2011 we recommend to install all libraries with HomeBrew. MacPorts simply has too many issues for installing. For reference we keep the MacPorts notes available.

HomeBrew

Installation of HomeBrew is simple and straight forward. You can read up on it over at the HomeBrew Installation. Or simply follow the instruction below:

The following commands should be entered in a terminal window.

Install HomeBrew

Ghostscript

ImageMagick

FFmpeg

Exiftool

Dcraw

UFraw

That's it. Now that way easy, right?

MacPorts

Download the MacPorts application and install it. Once installed open up a terminal and issue the following commands (you will need the administrator/root password for this);

Ghostscript

ImageMagick

FFmpeg

All applications will then be installed in the directory "/opt/local/bin". Remember this path since you will need to supply the path within Razuna for ImageMagick and FFMpeg.

Exiftool

Double click the exiftool package to run the installer. It will install exiftool on your system. Since MacOS X comes already with PERL installed, Exiftool should run out of the box.

DCRaw & ufraw (optional)

Razuna is able to work with RAW images from different digital cameras. In order for Razuna to work with RAW images you will need to install "DCRAW" and "ufraw". To install those two libraries either download and compile them install them from your distribution repositories. This is done with:

Note: The installation can take a LONG time (sometimes 3 hours!)

Windows

All the applications can be found in your download folder of Razuna under "Installation/Application".

Ghostscript

Double click the installer. There is nothing more to do.

You need to install the 32bit version of Ghostscript! ImageMagick (which uses Ghostscript internally) is looking for the 32bit version.

ImageMagick

On Windows 2008 Server you will need to install "Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package" in order to run ImageMagick successfully.

Double click the installer. When you are prompted for the location, we recommend to install ImageMagick in your root drive, usually that is "C:\".

FFMpeg

(These versions are also available within the "Installation/Application" folder of your download!)

Unzip and then drag then drag the "ffmpeg-(version)" folder to your "C:\" drive.

Exiftool

Simply take the provided folder and copy it to your C: Harddrive (NOT on your Desktop)! Since Exiftool is a PERL package you will need to have perl installed on your server. Therefore please install the provided perl installer. If you already have perl installed test if exiftool works with it. Just navigate to the exiftool folder and run the exiftool.exe application. If Exiftool can not find perl it will tell you.

Wget

You can grab the Windows binaries from the official Wget homepage. Please follow the installation instructions of the Wget download.

DCRaw (optional)

Razuna is able to work with RAW images from different digital cameras. In order for Razuna to work with RAW images you will need to install "DCRAW". Simply copy the provided "dcraw.exe" to your C: drive or download the latest build from http://www.insflug.org/raw/