Hi Tobias,
An idea came to mind when you mention needing to package your
software for many different Linux distros which you don't run yourself. I
run into that problem sometimes too, and have found Virtual Box to be
quite useful in those situations. Any virtual machine software should
work, but in my daily work, I have found Virtual Box quite useful to me
for testing other Linux distros and how software will run under them. I
just install as many different guest OSes as needed.
HTH,
Pia Mikeal
System Administrator
Markey Center for Structural Biology
Purdue University
[email protected]
(765)496-6781
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> it's my first message here. I'm not fully sure if this is the right mailing
> list for this, please inform me if not.
>
> I'm not an Ubuntu user myself but develop open source software. In order to
> facilitate the installation process for non expert Linux users, I decided to
> start to make Ubuntu packages of my software.
>
> I'd like to start with a small but hopefully useful script of mine which
> makes "pdf sandwich" files, that is, it performs optical character
> recognition on scanned PDF files and places the recognized text invisibly
> behind the scanned images.
>
> Please find my deb package attempts on the project website:
> http://pdfsandwich.origo.ethz.ch/
>
> You can generage the packages easily yourself from the sources. Simply
> checkout the sources:
>
> svn checkout https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/pdfsandwich/trunk/src pdfsandwich
>
> and type
>
> ./configure
> make deb
>
> That's all. You need ocaml for compiling which can be easily installed from
> the Ubuntu repositories.
>
> The packages are supposed to work with Ubuntu 10.04. I can't try them out as
> I'm not running ubuntu myself. Please feel free to try them out. If there are
> any problems or mistakes with the packages, please inform me. Otherwise, feel
> free to use and/or distribute them as you like.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Tobias
>
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