[Slightly OT] Gocr-0.40 can't see netpbm for FuzzyOCR

[James Lay <jl...@slave-tothe-box.net>]

Hey all!

Soo......the current gocr segfault patch ONLY works for gocr-0.40
(interesting as that version is no longer on the gocr site ;)).
However, after talking with the developer of gocr, gocr-0.40 can't seem
to find netpbm.  This has been fixed (and verified) in version 0.41.
Decoder spoke of some people in here that had a workaround/fix for just
this issue.  Any help here?  Heh...I love linux...even the smallest
task can turn into the biggest chore ;)

James

Re: [Slightly OT] Gocr-0.40 can't see netpbm for FuzzyOCR

[James Lay <jl...@slave-tothe-box.net>]

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:57:36 +0100
Matthias Keller <li...@matthias-keller.ch> wrote:

> James Lay wrote:
> > Hey all!
> >
> > Soo......the current gocr segfault patch ONLY works for gocr-0.40
> > (interesting as that version is no longer on the gocr site ;)).
> > However, after talking with the developer of gocr, gocr-0.40 can't
> > seem to find netpbm.  This has been fixed (and verified) in version
> > 0.41. Decoder spoke of some people in here that had a
> > workaround/fix for just this issue.  Any help here?  Heh...I love
> > linux...even the smallest task can turn into the biggest chore ;)
> >   
> Hi
> 
> gocr 0.40 cant detect netpbm10 for some reason
> The workaround is, install netpbm9, compile and then upgrade to
> netpbm10 again
> gocr works just fine like that
> You'll also have to make some symlinks then to (i think) two netpbm10 
> .so files - but gocr will tell you what it's missing upon each
> execution 
> - just link the missing 9 files to the corresponding 10 then
> 
> Matt
> 
Thanks Matt...I will give this a shot.  Never thought I'd have to
install a package then upgrade....wow you'd think this was a w$ndows
machine :D

./me ducks ;)

James

Re: [Slightly OT] Gocr-0.40 can't see netpbm for FuzzyOCR

[Matthias Keller <li...@matthias-keller.ch>]

James Lay wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> Soo......the current gocr segfault patch ONLY works for gocr-0.40
> (interesting as that version is no longer on the gocr site ;)).
> However, after talking with the developer of gocr, gocr-0.40 can't seem
> to find netpbm.  This has been fixed (and verified) in version 0.41.
> Decoder spoke of some people in here that had a workaround/fix for just
> this issue.  Any help here?  Heh...I love linux...even the smallest
> task can turn into the biggest chore ;)
>   
Hi

gocr 0.40 cant detect netpbm10 for some reason
The workaround is, install netpbm9, compile and then upgrade to netpbm10 
again
gocr works just fine like that
You'll also have to make some symlinks then to (i think) two netpbm10 
.so files - but gocr will tell you what it's missing upon each execution 
- just link the missing 9 files to the corresponding 10 then

Matt