Decapod Installer Notes

• a fragile shell script that uses dpkg to install and remove decapod components: http://code.google.com/p/decapod/source/browse/#hg%2Finstall-scripts

• Previously Decapod and Ocropus were manually installed by following a transcript:

  • Decapod 0.3 install script

• using the "decapod-all.sh remove" option does not completely remove all components.

• user then needs to manually clean up (warning, ugly...):

sudo rm -fr /usr/local/share/ocropus/
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/ocro*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
sudo rm -r /usr/local/bin/decapod-genpdf.py

• Easy "one-click" installation of Decapod and its dependencies. Including:

  • gphoto

  • ocropus

  • various python libraries (like matplotlib etc.)

• Easy "one-click" removal of Decapod and its dependencies.

• Ability to easily change version numbers of dependencies

• Simultaneously run different versions of Decapod

• Ability to easily determine which version of Decapod is being used.

• testing different versions of Decapod for regression bugs

• testing effects of changing / upgrading Decapod dependencies (i.e. upgrading from gphoto 2.4.9 to 2.5).

• end-user installation

• reverting a system back to a pristine "pre-Decapod" state