Installing RTProfileSelector - marcapelini/RTProfileSelector GitHub Wiki

Go to the releases page and download the most recent release:
For Windows, you will need to download both "Source code (zip)" and "RTProfileSelector.exe"
For Linux you probably want to download the "Source code" (either zip or tar.gz) only and compile it into a binary (more on that later)

Unpack the source to a folder on your computer:
On my Windows computer I have unzipped the "source" at "C:\RTProfileSelector"
On my Linux computer I have unzipped the "source" at "~/Tools/RTProfileSelector"

Important: since RTProfileSelector writes log and debug files into its own "installation" folder, for both Windows and Linux, it must be guaranteed that the application has full read/write access to said folder. Thus, (for example) on Windows it's generally inadvisable to place RTProfileSelector.exe within the system's "Program Files" folder. Same concept applies to Linux, in case the current user doesn't have write access to the folder where the RTProfileSelector binary resides.

For Windows, just copy the executable RTProfileSelector.exe to the same folder where you extracted the "source" zip file (in the example above, that would be "C:\RTProfileSelector")
For Linux (Ubuntu), you will have to compile the source and copy the executable binary to the same folder where the configuration (.ini) files are located.
- Make sure you have a C++ compiler available:
  
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install g++
- Open a terminal, go to the "source/RTProfileSelector" folder and type:
  
  $ g++ -Wall -std=c++0x RTProfileSelector.cpp -o RTProfileSelector
This will generate the RTProfileSelector executable, which you will have to copy to the folder where you placed the configuration files.

Install exiftools

"Exiftools is a tool that manipulates meta information on pictures (reads, writes and edits meta information)". I have used it to extract Exif fields from raw files so that RTPS can have access to a variety of keys recorded by the camera. These keys and their values are what RTPS uses for its "rules".
- For Windows you should download exiftool (zip file) from http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/index.html. Then just unzip it and place "exiftool(-k).exe" in the same folder as you placed RTProfileSelector itself. You then have to manually rename "exiftool(-k).exe" as "exiftool.exe" so that RTPS can correctly find and execute it:
- For Ubuntu and similar Linux distros, the easiest way is to install from packages:
  
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install perl
  $ sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl

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