I'm beginning to see what you mean, Tom. It's looking like the effort of installing a newer version of Python on Ubuntu 8.04 is not all much less than (and perhaps less rewarding than) upgrading to a more recent version of Ubuntu.
On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:24:34 AM UTC-5, Tom wrote: > > Older versions of Mercurial don't have support for nested repositories. > You can just manually check out ocropy: > > $ hg clone https://code.google.com/p/ocropus.ocropy ocropy > > However, OCRopus 0.6 uses lots of features in Python that aren't supported > on Ubuntu 8.04. > > Tom > > On Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:58:40 PM UTC+1, John Chew wrote: >> >> I'm trying to download and install OCRopus for the first time on an old >> Ubuntu system (8.04.2). >> As per the instructions at https://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ I have >> entered: >> >> $ hg clone -r ocropus-0.6 https://code.google.com/p/ocropus >> >> >> Here's the result: >> >> > hg clone https://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ >> destination directory: ocropus >> requesting all changes >> adding changesets >> adding manifests >> adding file changes >> added 128 changesets with 173 changes to 19 files >> updating working directory >> 11 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved >> > ls -l ocropus >> total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 poslfit poslfit 4096 2012-11-15 09:49 fraktur-boxes >> drwxr-xr-x 2 poslfit poslfit 4096 2012-11-15 09:49 historic-newspaper >> -rw-r--r-- 1 poslfit poslfit 603 2012-11-15 09:49 README >> drwxr-xr-x 2 poslfit poslfit 4096 2012-11-15 09:49 uw3-500 >> > >> >> I appear to be missing ocropus/ocropy, and can't proceed any further. >> >> Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ocropus/-/hzLwzP8uxXIJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
