ImageGear Professional for Linux
Installing ImageGear

To install ImageGear, download an electronic version from www.accusoft.com. Please contact Accusoft at 1(813)875-7575 for instructions on downloading your specific version of ImageGear for Linux.

The name of the ImageGear installation package for Linux is the following:

Please see "Automated Installation Script" or "Manual Installation" sections below for details on installing ImageGear.

Automated Installation Script

  1. Move the installation file ImageGearPro18.5.0-Linux32.tar.gz (ImageGearPro18.5.0-Linux64.tar.gz for 64-bit platforms) into your home directory $HOME
  2. Extract the installation file contents, which is typically done by running
     
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    tar zxvf {installation filename}
    
  3. In the $HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/ folder ($HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18-64/ folder for 64-bit platforms) after extracting, locate the install.sh script and run it. Below is the example for Linux (bash):
     
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    Linux (bash)-> . install.sh
    Linux (bash)-> source install.sh

    The script will search for and modify the current user's shell profile files to add ImageGear's environment variables for the current folder and attempt to run the Accusoft License Manager. Optionally, a destination directory can be used as an argument. For example:

     
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    . install.sh $HOME/ImageGear18
    source install.sh $HOME/ImageGear18
    

    In this case, the contents of the $HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/ directory will be copied to the specified directory, and the environment variables and licensing will be done for this location.

Manual Installation

  1. Move the installation file ImageGearPro18.5.0-Linux32.tar.gz (ImageGearPro18.5.0-Linux64.tar.gz for 64-bit platforms) into your home directory $HOME
  2. Extract the installation file contents, which is typically done by running
     
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    tar zxvf {installation filename}
  3. In order for ImageGear to work, there must be a license file installed. The license key is kept in the file with the name accusoft.<solution name>.<version specification>.license. ImageGear installation uses the predefined solution name 'Accusoft' and version specification '1-10-18' for Linux 32-bit platforms, and '1-106-18' for Linux 64-bit platforms.

    Please use $HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/licensing/licensemanager/runLicenseManager script (on 32-bit platform) or
    $HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18-64/licensing/licensemanager/runLicenseManager script (on 64-bit platform) to run the License Manager user interface. Please refer to ImageGear Licensing for additional details about how to acquire a license key.

  4. Now that the license file is created, the variable ACCUSOFT_LICENSE_DIR has to be defined and should contain the path to the license file (for example: $HOME/.config/accusoft/licensing/). If the ACCUSOFT_LICENSE_DIR variable is not defined, ImageGear will look for the license file successively in the following locations:
    • current working directory
    • $HOME/.config/accusoft/licensing
    • /etc/accusoft/licensing
    • /usr/lib
  5. In order to let the linker find ImageGear shared libraries, you need to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. For example:
     
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    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/bin

  6. ImageGear uses IMAGE_GEAR_LIBRARY_PATH variable to set a path to the ImageGear libraries. For example:

     
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    IMAGE_GEAR_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/bin

  7. ImageGear also uses SSMPATH variable to set a path to the DCRAW library. It should point to the same location as IMAGE_GEAR_LIBRARY_PATH. For example:

     
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    SSMPATH=$HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/bin

  8. Here is an example Linux .bash_profile with all the necessary variables defined:

     
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    # User specific environment and startup programs
    PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:.
    BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
    USERNAME=""
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/bin
    IMAGE_GEAR_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/bin
    SSMPATH=$HOME/Accusoft/ImageGear18/bin
    ACCUSOFT_LICENSE_DIR=$HOME/.config/accusoft/licensing/
    export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH IMAGE_GEAR_LIBRARY_PATH
    ACCUSOFT_LICENSE_DIR SSMPATH

 

 


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