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by **rory** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:52 am

I'm quite new to IPKG so forgive me if this is a noob issue...

I've been trying to get a few ipkg modules running on my QNAP 409 Pro:

Imagemagick
Ghostscript
FFMpeg

They appear to install correctly without any error messages but they do not appear in the usr/bin or usr/sbin path, which is how I would expect to call them. Is the path for ipkg modules something different? Do I need to reference them directly and if yes, where do they reside?

Any help appreciated.

by **rory** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:35 am

So I hard linked to the needed binaries as follows:

/share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Optware/bin

But shouldn't there be a symlink in /usr/bin?

by **rory** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:37 pm

The path is /opt/bin rather than /usr/bin...

by **shimpai** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:23 am

Hello !
I'm in the exact same situation as you were with imageMagick path.
You thread helped me, but I need a bit more details.
I installed IPKG fine, but I don't know where to make the symlink and where it's supposed to link to.
Culd you please help ?
Thanks

by **rory** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:20 am

Can you give a bit more info? are you looking for the path to the binary? It is opt/bin

If you are looking for something else let me know.

by **Marc J** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:52 pm

Hi,

This thread gave me some pointers, but unfortunately I'm still stuck!

My thread: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=20529&start=0

Basically, I've installed Optware IPKG, and using it installed Imagemagick and Ghostscript. But PHP scripts requiring it aren't working, I'm assuming there are paths or some further configuration required. If you got this working, are you able to offer any help?

by **rory** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:50 am

Assuming that PHP is configured correctly you should be able to supply a direct path to optware bin. In my case this was:

/share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Optware/bin

But the actual path on your machine may vary depending on the raid configuration that you are running. The easiest way to determine the path is to ssh into the box and navigate to the optware/bin. Then determine the full path with the pwd command. Also check the optware/bin to ensure that the required binaries are present. If not then search for them and use the resulting path. You could also create a symlink in usr/bin although I had issues getting symlinks to work with some applications. I have no idea why.

Let us know here when and how you solve your issues as it may help others in the future.

Regards,

Rory

by **Marc J** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:16 am

Thanks for coming back rory, I wasn't sure if you were still watching this topic or not!

I found a test page for Imagemagick somewhere else which for me: -

Code: Select all: <html> <head> <title>Test for ImageMagick</title> </head> <body> <?php function alist ($array) { //This function prints a text array as an html list. $alist = "<ul>"; for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($array); $i++) { $alist .= "<li>$array[$i]"; } $alist .= "</ul>"; return $alist; } // should give the path to imagemagick echo "<pre>"; system("type convert"); echo "</pre>"; $imagemagick_path = '/opt/bin/convert'; // the output from above in my case exec("$imagemagick_path -version", $out, $rcode); //Try to get ImageMagick "convert" program version number. echo "Version return code is $rcode <br>"; //Print the return code: 0 if OK, nonzero if error. echo alist($out); //Print the output of "convert -version" ?> </body> </html>

The output of the first part (i.e. the path to Imagemagick) was /opt/bin/convert and so I'm guessing a symlink was automatically created upon installation. Using this works fine, Imagemagick and Ghostscript are working just as they should be

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