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Overview of Dependencies

Most Islandora Solution Packs and some modules will require that you have one or more of the following dependencies installed so that Islandora Content Models can perform prescribed actions on your data objects. Review Chapter 5 - Islandora Solution Packs to see what dependencies are required for the solution packs you wish to install.

Apache Reverse Proxy

If you wish to use an iframe with the Islandora Viewer you must configure Apache with  a reverse proxy. Note: These instructions are for configurations with Fedora running on the same server as Drupal.

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2. Test your configuration by navigating to http://localhost/fedora/risearch to view the Fedora resource index page.

Djatoka

Djatoka is a Java-based open source image server that provides compression and region extraction of JPEG 2000 images, URI-addressability of regions, and support for a rich set of input/output image formats (e.g., BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, PNM, TIF, JPEG 2000).

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4. To test the filter, access a Fedora with large image objects that have restricted security policies.

ExifTool

ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing metadata in a wide variety of formats. ExifTool is used by the Audio Solution Pack to read and write metadata for audio files. Islandora currently uses ExifTool version 3.5.

ExifTool can be obtained from the project home page. Installation will differ depending on your operating system; please see the installation instructions for details.

ImageMagick

ImageMagick is used to create thumbnail and medium-size JPEF versions of ingested images. Most Linux systems ship with ImageMagick already installed. If your system does not have the command-line program "convert" you will need to install ImageMagick using your OS's package manager, or on Mac OS X install it from source using http://www.macports.org. JPEG2000 support is not required in ImageMagick since we are using Kakadu.

We recommend using ImageMagick version 6.7 and higher and the corresponding Ghostscript installation. You can download ImageMagick (and find installation instructions) on the Binary Release page.

Islandora Viewer

The Islandora Viewer is a JAVA application served up by Tomcat, which enables the viewing of web-based images and PDFs as a virtual document. It is required by the Large Image Solution Pack, Newspaper Solution Pack, and Book Solution Pack. The viewer provides zoom, scrolling and pagination capabilities.

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Note

If you are using Fedora 3.5, you will need to edit FEDORA_HOME/server/config/spring/web/security.xml and comment out the following line: <security:filter-chain pattern="/risearch*" filters="ChannelFilter,AuthFilterJAAS" />.

Lame

Lame is distributed as source code only and requires the ability to use a C compiler. To learn more about the LAME MP3 Encoder, visit http://lame.sourceforge.net/

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sudo apt-get install lame

Kakadu

Source: Kakadu Software - Description

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  • Djatoka includes Kakadu executable files. If Drupal and Fedora are on the same server you should be able to copy or symlink kdu_compress to somewhere on the Apache users classpath.

SWF Tools

This suite of Drupal modules is used primarily by the Audio Solution Pack. You can download if from the Drupal project page.

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  • SWF Tools
  • JW Media Player 5
  • SWF Object 2

Tesseract

Tesseract is an OCR engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995 - it is currently being developed at Google. Recognized as one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available, Tesseract will read binary, grey, or colour images and output text. A TIFF reader that will read uncompressed TIFF images is also included.

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Info

Automatic page orientation detection was added in Tesseract 3.01. For more information, see the Tesseract Project Home.

Video Dependencies

A number of video conversion dependencies are required by the Video Solution Pack. Most of the conversion work is handled by FFmpeg, a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. However, conversion to the Ogg Vorbis format requires ffmpeg2theora, libvorbis, libtheora, and libogg.

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