Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support

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Then download and run Album
Then download and run Album
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wget http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.tar.gz
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tar -xvzf album.tar.gz
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cd album-3.12
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mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
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cp album /usr/local/bin/
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chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/album
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===OpenLink (MIPSel)===
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{{Warning|Untested}}
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#Install the [[Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS]] (to get [[w:Perl|Perl]])
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#Install imagemagik from source.<ref>[http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix ImageMagick: Install from Source]</ref>
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Download ImageMagick.tar.gz from [ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org ftp.imagemagick.org] or its mirrors and unpack it with this command:
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wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
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tar -xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
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Next configure and compile ImageMagick:
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  cd ImageMagick-6.?.?
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  ./configure
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  make
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If ImageMagick configured and compiled without complaint, you are ready to install it on your system. Administrator privileges are required to install. To install, type
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  make install
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*Then download and run Album
  wget http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.tar.gz
  wget http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.tar.gz
  tar -xvzf album.tar.gz
  tar -xvzf album.tar.gz

Revision as of 17:18, 7 September 2006


Contents

What is it?

Album - [1] An HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes directories of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need.

Album is a perl script, which means you need to be comfortable with or prepared to use the command-line. If you just want a point-and-click, you may wish to look elsewhere. Features:

  • You can use themes to choose or redesign the album "look and feel."
  • Recursively descends directories to make a hierarchy of photo albums
  • EXIF support, Video thumbnails...
  • Has a plugin system that allows you to write perl code to alter the behavior of album.
  • Slideshows, transparent overlays, credit tags, easy captions, and endless features!

Look here for documentation: http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Docs/ [2]

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

  1. Apache or LightHTTPD or Thttpd
  2. The album perl script[3]
  3. Imagemagick tools (specifically 'convert')

Optional Installation

  1. Themes[4]
  2. ffmpeg (for movie thumbnails)

Installation

FreeLink

apt-get install album

OpenLink (PowerPC)

 
WARNING!

Untested


  1. Install the Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS (to get Perl)
  2. Install Ipkg on the Linkstation (for end-users) and enable the NSLU2 Feed: Ipkg Package List: PowerPC
  3. Install imagemagick 
ipkg install imagemagick

Then download and run Album 

wget http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.tar.gz
tar -xvzf album.tar.gz
cd album-3.12
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
cp album /usr/local/bin/
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/album


OpenLink (MIPSel)

 
WARNING!

Untested


  1. Install the Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS (to get Perl)
  2. Install imagemagik from source.[5]

Download ImageMagick.tar.gz from ftp.imagemagick.org or its mirrors and unpack it with this command: 

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz

Next configure and compile ImageMagick: 

 cd ImageMagick-6.?.?
 ./configure
 make

If ImageMagick configured and compiled without complaint, you are ready to install it on your system. Administrator privileges are required to install. To install, type 

 make install
  • Then download and run Album 
wget http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.tar.gz
tar -xvzf album.tar.gz
cd album-3.12
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
cp album /usr/local/bin/
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/album

Running Album

Directory

  • You need a web directory to put themes and your photo album.[6] eg: /home/httpd/test the URL will be: http://myserver/test/
  • First create a directory and put some images in it. We'll call this: /home/httpd/test/Photos

Using A Theme

I use this theme:
Dominatrix6.jpg

To use a theme, download the theme .tar or .zip and unpack it.

Themes are found according to the -theme_path setting, which is a list of places to look for themes. Those paths need to be somewhere under the top of your web directory, but not inside a photo album directory. It needs to be accessible from a web browser.

You can either move the theme into one of the theme_paths that album is already using, or make a new one and specify it with the -theme_path option.

Then call album with the -theme option, with or without -theme_path: 

 album -theme Dominatrix6 /home/httpd/test/Photos
 album -theme Dominatrix6 -theme_path /home/httpd/Themes/ /home/httpd/test/Photos

Medium images

Full resolution images are usually too big for a web album, so we'll use medium images on the image pages: 

album -medium 33% /home/httpd/test/Photos

References

  1. ↑ http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/
  2. ↑ MarginalHacks Album Documentation
  3. ↑ http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Download.html MarginalHacks: Album Download
  4. ↑ Davepics.com - Snapshots of all Album themes
  5. ↑ ImageMagick: Install from Source
  6. ↑ marginalhacks.com Album Documentation: MINI HOW-TO
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