Hi Everyone, Getting FreeImage working was a freakin nightmare. But I thougt I'd leave a trail for those who follow. If your production environment happens to be Ubuntu Gutsy like me then you might find this useful:
I got it up and going decently at first, gif's worked, but not jpegs. I eventually tracked down this link, which talks about some conflict with the jpeg library: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeimage/+bug/128026 This had the solution: http://pastie.org/pastes/104754 I don't know who put it there but it saved my bacon. FYI, there were some other things i had to do to get that working. For example, I had to change line 8 to this: apt-get source libjpeg6b I also had to install some tools along the way as I got errors, such as: sudo apt-get install liburi-perl sudo apt-get install fakeroot Also, after running line 23 I got an error like this: Now signing changes and any dsc files... signfile freeimage_3.9.3-3ubuntu1.dsc Brian Armstrong gpg: skipped "Brian Armstrong ": secret key not available gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting.... debuild: fatal error at line 1174: running debsign failed debuild returned 29 Couldn't run 'debuild -i\.git/ -I.git' Which was only resolved by going and reading about gpg: http://www.quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/howto_setup_gpg.html I had to go through the steps of "gpg --gen-key" and create a passphrase with that exact name and info "Brian Armstrong ". Before line 23 would run. I have no idea what any of this does...personally I hate anything that invovles a "make install" to get it working (mostly because it never seems to work right). I can't believe it's really this hard to get this working. Anyway, thanks to ImageScience for a cool program...I know it's not your fault FreeImage is so difficult. Best of luck to everyone, and I really hope these things get easier over time for rails developers everywhere. Brian brian at startbreakingfree dot com -- FreeImage jpeg library conflicts with system jpeg library https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128026 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
