Hi,
a while ago Lars Kiesow posted a desciption on how to create a Red Hat /
CentOS Matterhorn repository containing all needed 3rd party libraries
and some Matterhorn packages [1]. I asked him to create such a
repository as it makes the installation of Matterhorn much easier,
faster and reliable.
To explain it more clearly: to install Matterhorn you would no longer
need to compile all the 3rd-party tools on your own and build Matterhorn
with Maven, you simply would execute these commands and a few minutes
later you have Matterhorn up and running.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
curl -O
http://matterhorn-repo-server.tld/matterhorn_3rd-party_repo/matterhorn_3rd-party.repo
yum install rpmforge-release.x86_64
yum install opencast-matterhorn
# You can add additional language packs for tesseract like this:
yum install tesseract-langpack-deu.noarch tesseract-langpack-deu-frak.noarch
From my point of view this sounds to good and now I need to come to the
downside:
ffmpeg is an important 3rd-party tool for Matterhorn. Because of the
patents on certain codecs (MPEG2, H.264, MP3, ...) it is unclear how
ffmpeg can be distributed in a binary version. Because of this I did
find someone willing to host the repo with the binaries yet.
Currently you can setup the repo on your own based on the sources, like
Lars explains it [1]. If you setup the repo once everyone who knows the
URL can use the repo as explained above.
We here in Osnabrück would be willing to update and maintain the repo
build scripts, but I am unfortunaly not allowed to host on our servers
for the public.
So my question is if someone else is willing to host the binary repo, to
make it easier for all to install (and update) Matterhorn?
Thanks
Rüdiger
[1]
http://opencast.3480289.n2.nabble.com/Matterhorn-Repository-for-RedHat-Enterprise-Linux-CentOS-td7459736.html
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