ok here is the situation. I'm a complete newbie at all this and have no idea what is going on. Currently I have a race website with thousands of photos and each time I basically upload via FTP to a temporary folder and use Cygwin with exiftool (I think) to tag each image and then use Cygwin to move them to where I want on my website. During the process I make a filename.sh file and then do a chmod 755 and then tell it to run and I can tag several thousand photos individually with my filename.sh file data. All that is good. Most of the time. haaha.
My question is I want to keep the images on my desktop and tag them using the same steps and then FTP them to my site. So I think what I'm trying to figure out is how to get exiftool to work on my desktop computer the way it works on my website.
I tried to do all the right things, but when I run the filename.sh file it says:
exiftool command not found
What do I need to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
install perl
then cpan Image::ExifTool
done.
The exiftool command is available through Cygwin Ports, an extra package repository for Cygwin.
To install:
Follow the Cygwin Ports installation guide (summarized here)
Download the regular Cygwin installer from https://www.cygwin.com/
In a cygwin terminal, run cygstart -- /path/to/setup-x86.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg. The Cygwin installer should open.
On the Choose Installation Type page, select "Install from Internet".
On the Choose Download Site(s) page, select a regular cygwin distro mirror, then enter ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports in the User URL field and press Add. Select both, then click Next.
At the Select Packages screen
Set the View dropdown to "Full"
Search for perl-Image-exiftool
Click it to install it
Continue to click Next until the installation completes
https://sourceware.org/cygwinports/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwin-ports/
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I have been vexed by what I felt should be an easy issue to solve. I have been trying to run the cmder executable from the start menu. But when I type the Cmder in the Run box, Cmder.exe does not show up in the list
But I can see from the cmd that Cmder.exe is present and when I run that exe in cmd , Cmder opens up.
Is there some reason that Cmder.exe does not appear in my start/run command?
Thanks in advance
The reason for this is that Cmder isn't installed like a typical Windows application.
The solution is to add Cmder to your computer's path. See Henrik Sommerfeld's blog post.
Additionally, if you're interested in learning more about what is being used for your searches, click the Filters button. See image below:
Instead of using the Start Menu, install Keypirinha. Then add the folder where you store Cmder and similar tools, to the Keypirinha and you can get rid of the Start Menu.
Keypirinha is faster and much more flexible than the Start Menu - e.g. let you pick the apps from somewhere on your machine.
I have a lot of XCopy-deployable tools like Cmder (and Keypirinha too) in an "Application" Git repository. If I have to provision a new developer machine with all the beloved developer tools, now the fast way is:
install Chocolatey
install Git Extensions via Chocolatey
clone my "Application" Git repository
This a done in less than 10 minutes and it covers 95% of my toolset.
To have CMDER on Windows Context Menu (right click) wherever you want.
Open a terminal as an Administrator
Navigate to the directory you have placed Cmder
Execute .\cmder.exe /REGISTER ALL
If you get a message "Access Denied" ensure you are executing the command in an Administrator prompt.
In a file explorer window right click in or on a directory to see "Cmder Here" in the context menu.
From: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder#shortcut-to-open-cmder-in-a-chosen-folder
Tip: put the CMDER files in c:\Program Files\CMDER
I want to install some softwares such as notepad++, safari etc in silent mode using command prompt. And my OS is win2k8r2.
I placed two executables npp.6.3.3.Installer.exe and SafariStup 4.2.exe in a folder in c drive and used command line arguments as below..
c:\AllFiles>npp.6.3.3.Installer.exe -s
it executes, but shows dialog boxes that was not expected.Please help...
Each program is going to be different, some don't even support silent installations. From command line if you do yourfile.exe /? it should tell you available options.
For Notepad++, I recommend simply downloading the ZIP package (not the EXE installer), unpacking it to the desired location, and adding a Start Menu shortcut.
You don't need to install it per se.
im trying to install xampp on "new" linux mint machine.
However im quite a noob to linux since i havnt used it for that long.
When i try to run the file that ive download from the following page:
Xampp download
i get the following error two errors:
Could not display "/home/marc/Downloads/xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-0-installer.run".
and if i click yes
Installing mime type handlers isn't supported
To search and install software which can open certain file types you have to install app-install-data.
can anyone tell me what the problem is and how i might fix it?
you need to execute the file (e.g. open a terminal, navigate to your Downloads folder and run bash xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-0-installer.run (possibly it might need to be run otherwise, but thats my best guess)).
alternatively you might be presented to run/execute the file (instead of displaying it). if so, choose this option.
on the other hand, you might consider installing apache/php/mysql via your package manager.
what you can do is that you can use the chmod +x /your folder location/.run file that you want to install
after that you can run following command
./and your .run file name
example:-
in my case :- User#user~$su root
it will ask for password so give it
User#user~chmod +x /Downloads/xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-0-installer.run
User#user~./xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-0-installer.run
I am from Mac background trying my hand at installing perforce client visual(P4V) on my linux box.For this I download the correct version here and untar the files.
Then I cd to the directory
~/Desktop/p4v-2012-blah-blah/bin
I also say
chmod +x p4*
After this i try running p4v (by double clicking) but I dont see anything .The file type is shown as a "text executable" but i dont know why it is not running.
On mac i had done the same thing -just clicked on p4v and the client would show up(where I filled the server address and everything )But not sure what is going wrong here.Can someone give me directions?
FWIW i did check out this link
and I do see the desktop (so GNOME is probably installed ?) .Hence p4v should be able to run.
I know we don't like link-based answers, but there is a rather complete walk-through here: http://www.perforce.com/documentation/tenminute-test-drive-linuxunix
Probably should be on Super User though.
You may have a 64bit Linux and tried to install a x86 P4V or vice versa, which is why the command doesn't run. Check that the OS and app types match.
Is there a commonly used approach for displaying 'how to get started' instructions to a user after a .deb installer has finished installing a package?
I need an approach that works for users working via a terminal as well as from a desktop environment.
Server admins will probably know to check for a README file but many others won't.
I'd suggest running the "tty" command from your postinstall script. That will tell you if you have a tty and are running as a terminal program. Once you know that you could either "more" a readme file if you're running in terminal mode or you could call "gnome-text-editor" if not. You might also want to put in some detection to check "/etc/lsb-release" so that you know what distribution your .deb is being installed on and which editors will be suitable.
I use the tty command like Benj suggested, but I use the dialog command to display post install chatter if its available on the system.
Try this command:
dialog --backtitle "All done" --title "Installation complete" --textbox /etc/passwd 0 0
... but replace /etc/passwd with your README of choice. Its a much nicer way to scroll through information.
After a bit of experimentation it looks like I can detect how the .deb package has been installed by checking the value of the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable in the postint.sh script. When run from the desktop it contains the value 'gnome', but when run via dpkg from the command-line it isn't set, so something like this might work:
HELP_URL="http://mysite.com/help.html"
if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" = "gnome" ]; then
nohup gnome-www-browser $HELP_URL &
else
echo For help visit $HELP_URL
fi