FW: [help-GIFT] Using GIFT

[Majid NAJJAR]

Dear Niles
I m really sorry to bother u again, but i would appreciate if i can have an 
answer soon, I m really stucked and i have  a deadline for having something 
working
i thank u a lot in advance
Regards


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> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:38:34 -0500
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [help-GIFT] Using GIFT
> 
> Hi, I remember having a similar problem--this is mentioned elsewhere
> on the list, and I think the problem is with the add-collection
> script.  Unfortunately I don't remember how I resolved the issue or if
> the solution is mentioned on the list.  If I have some time tonight or
> tomorrow, I'll look through my version of the script and see if I can
> figure out what changes I made.
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that I'm not ignoring you though :)
> 
> best,
> Niles
> 
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Majid NAJJAR  wrote:
>>
>> Hi, GIFT is said to be a great tool to find similar images.
>> After days of fighting I've been able to install GIFT 0.1.14 on Linux 
>> openSUSE 11.0. But i don't know what to do with it !!!
>> I don't want to read and compare images from a database  ( i will do it 
>> later on ) but i need to do it from a specific folder.
>>
>> in /usr/local/bin i've executed ./gift-add-collection.pl 
>> /home/maj/Desktop/Logo/
>> then executed ./gift
>>
>>
>>
>> The current configuration directory is: /home/maj
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Opening port 12789
>> ----------------------------------------
>> TCP socket successfully initialized:9
>> TCP socket successfully initialized:10
>> Waiting for connection...
>>
>>
>>
>> A new folder was Logo_thumbnails but nothing inside it.
>>
>>
>> I've tried to repeat the operation but when i've launched the 
>> ./gift-add-collection.pl /home/maj/Desktop/Logo/
>> an error showed up:
>>
>> PROGRESS: 99%
>>
>>
>> Copying /home/maj/gift-config.mrml to /home/maj/gift-config.mrml-old
>>
>> XML::DOM::Attr=ARRAY(0x8aa482c)
>> Can't locate object method "getAttribute" via package "XML::DOM::Attr" at 
>> ./gift-add-collection.pl line 796,  line 44.
>>
>>
>> Is it normal to have such error? And how can I use GIFT in order to find 
>> similar images ? Would you please give me some uselful tutorials ?!
>>
>> NB: I'm new to Linux so please give me a clear explanation.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
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