hugin

hugin is a graphic user interface to panorama tools. As the name suggests, `panorama tools' is used to join (`stich') pictures of adjacent scenery together to form a continuous panorama. `panorama tools' has others uses too, such as correcting chromatic aberration. If you are interested, you can look for more information about digital photography within the FZ10 guide.

hugin RPM packages are available, but not specifically for SuSE. I used the fc2 (Fedora Core 2) package. It has a lot of dependencies including...

• panorama-tools and libpano12 -- also available from the same site as hugin.
• enblend -- fc2 package available from the DAG website, it can also be found via rpmfind.
• fftw (version 2) -- It is better to use the SuSE 9.2 package, rather than the available fc2 packages. The SuSE package goes under the name `fftw', whereas hugin expects `fftw2'. You can either use the `-force' option when installing hugin or change the fftw package...
  • Download the fftw source package from the SuSE archives and install it.
  • Change the SPEC file for fftw in /usr/src/packages/SPEC/ by adding the line `provides: fftw2' after the `Release:' line.
  • `rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPEC/fftw.spec' will build the new fftw which provides fftw2 (rather than just version 2 of fftw). There may be some unsatisfied dependencies such as libnscd and libzio, both of which are available from the SuSE archives.
  • Install the new package which can be found in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586 (in my case)
• wxGTK (version 2.4) and wxGTK-xrc -- SuSE 9.1 does have wxGTK, but not with the xrc extension. It is easier to use both wxGTK and wxGTK-xrc from freshrpms. Mixing wxGTK from the SuSE distribution, and wxGTK-xrc from freshrpm results in dependency conflicts.
• autopano-sift -- optional download from the same site as panorama-tools. Allows automatic selection of control points. Requires numerous other RPMs to have a working Mono/(.Net) installation : cairo, gtk-sharp, libgdiplus, libgtkhtml3.1 (a newer version of gtkhtml3 than that provided with SuSE 9.1), libpixman, mono-core, mono-data, mono-web, mono-winforms, render, xrender. `xrender' has a conflicting file with X.org 6.8.1, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc. I moved X.org's version and forced the install of xrender. Who knows what problems that will cause eventually...
  autopano-sift also requires newer versions of icu, libicu from Ximian. The versions of icu from SuSE 9.1 are reportedly bad, causing `Message: : u_strToLower error: U_FILE_ACCESS_ERROR' and `Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type'.