OpenNI packages in eighthave repo

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Oct 20 16:52:55 UTC 2011


If you can post a fix to this, I'll include it in the git repo and  
post some updated packages on launchpad.

.hc

On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Daniel Squires wrote:

> Oops, Eleanor is my wife,I replied using her old email profile,  
> sorry about
> that.
>
> I got it installing ok, now trying to work out why client apps wont  
> work, just
> gives me an error something like "initfromxml failed" and something  
> to do with
> usb. I don't have exact error to hand right now.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
> On Thursday 20 October 2011 12:01:51 you wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>
>> Looks like Eleanor found the answer.  So the thing to do is change  
>> the
>> download URL in the script in that package.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Eleanor Blackmore wrote:
>>> Looks like the real problem is that the download site has been
>>> changed, so
>>> wget is retrieving a html doc.
>>>
>>> I still had the 1.3.1.5 Nite Binary knocking about and hacked the
>>> update-
>>> primesense-nite-nonfree script to use it instead, then it built
>>> a .deb which i
>>> can install :)
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 19 October 2011 12:17:03 you wrote:
>>>> That .deb is generated by the installing of openni-module- 
>>>> primesense-
>>>> nite-nonfree, it downloads the non-free binaries and makes a deb  
>>>> out
>>>> of it.  I'm on a 32-bit system, it works for me.  But I think the
>>>> author of that package is on 64-bit.
>>>>
>>>> I cc'ed the pkg-multimedia team to see if anyone can help on 64- 
>>>> bit.
>>>> Can you post the whole log of your apt-get install session  
>>>> somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Daniel Squires wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to use the packages from your eighthave repo on Ubuntu
>>>>> oneiric, I found the wiki at @
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.debian.org/PrimeSenseNite#Installation
>>>>>
>>>>> But the .deb it refers to ( /var/cache/primesense-nite-nonfree/
>>>>> openni-
>>>>> module-primesense-nite-nonfree_1.3.1.5-1_i386.deb) does not  
>>>>> exist on
>>>>> my
>>>>> system. It is an amd64 install and wonder if this is why?
>>>>>
>>>>> The only file that does exist there is /var/cache/primesense-nite-
>>>>> nonfree/primesense-nite.tar.gz which actually just seems to be an
>>>>> html
>>>>> doc of the openni homepage!
>>>>>
>>>>> indeed dpkg -L openni-module-primesense-nite-nonfree makes no
>>>>> mention of
>>>>> the .deb file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help much appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a  
>>>> better
>>>> language; and every chapter must be so translated.... -John Donne
>>
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