Operating System specific notes

Redhat / Fedora Core

  • The packages libungif and libungif-progs should be installed.
  • RedHat RPM packages of Gocr are not built with NetPBM support. Using them decreases detection rate!

Fedora Core 5 (or higher)

  • The package libungif-utils provides the necessary libungif binaries.
  • Fedora repository rpm (10.34-1.fc5) for netpbm is broken due to patches not having been applied. Install from source rpm (which applies patches) or tarball (and patch).

Debian

  • The package libungif-bin provides the necessary libungif binaries.
  • DebianSarge

Debian Testing (Etch)

  • # apt-get install netpbm gifsicle libungif-bin gocr ocrad
  • # cpan String::Approx MLDBM (or apt-get install libstring-approx-perl libmldbm-sync-perl)

Suse 10.0

  • The packages giflib and gilflib-progs should be installed.
  • For the 3.x branch, the package ungifsicle provides gifsicle.

Gentoo

  • FuzzyOcr will soon be in portage. Meanwhile get the ebuild(s) here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158445
  • All dependencies except the perl modules are in portage
  • To apply the patches, one might need custom ebuilds for gocr and giflib (or install from source)
  • The necessary perl module(s) can be installed with gcpan

Mandriva

  • Packages ungifsicle and libungif-progs should be installed
  • The line below should install all dependencies:
  • # urpmi ocrad netpbm ungifsicle libungif-progs perl-String-Approx perl-MLDBM perl-MLDBM-Sync perl-Log-Agent

Slackware

Slackware 11.0 now includes the binaries in its libungif package. The libungif.SlackBuild file now has this: 

    ## I don't believe we need all this slop.  Correct me if I'm wrong.
    # I've been corrected...
    #rm -rf $PKG/usr/bin

In earlier versions Slackware does not have a libungif-utils/progs/bin package, and the libungif package does not include the binaries such as giffix. So, you have to hack it a bit.

  • Download (or copy from CD) the /source/l/libungif directory, don't untar anything
  • Edit the libungif.SlackBuild and comment out this line: 
        # I don't believe we need all this slop.  Correct me if I'm wrong.
         rm -rf $PKG/usr/bin
  • Run "sh libungif.SlackBuild"
  • Uninstall the libungif package, if it's already installed
  • Look in /tmp, and install the new libungif package there

Thanks to Andy Lyttle for the Slackware explanations :)

FreeBsd

Great Walkthrough here for using Ports: 'FuzzyOCR for SpamAssassin on FreeBSD' http://jamesoff.net/site/projects/freebsd/fuzzyocr-for-spamassassin-on-freebsd/

OpenBSD 3.9

yes, worked !

Mac OSX Server 10.4

Use Macports. Download it from here: http://www.macports.org/ Once you have it installed, open a terminal window and run:

sudo port install Gifsicle sudo port install NetPBM sudo port install Giflib sudo port install Gocr

Then install the perl modules using CPAN

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell install String::Approx

Then follow the instructions for placing the modules in the correct folder.

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