Re: [infomap-nlp-users] Installation of infomap

[Scott C. <ced...@gm...>]

Hi Henry,

    I'm glad to hear that you got the software to build and work.

    It looks to me from the output file you attach that the
infomap-install command is actually working; I think you don't need
the files it reports as missing.  After running infomap-install, can
you run "associate" on the installed corpus in the manner described by
the documentation?  If so, don't worry about the missing files.  If
not, write back again and I'll try to help you solve the problem.  A
more detailed explanation of what I think is going on appears below.

    Except for the files number2name.dir and number2name.pag, all of
the files that are missing are "something.db".  Probably you have
corresponding files something.dir and something.pag for each of these.
 Although I'm not certain, my guess is that some DBM implementations
use two files, a .dir file and a .pag file, to represent a database,
while others use a single .db file.  So you need *either* a .dir file
and a .pag file for a given database, or a .db file, but not both.

    As for number2name.*, you only need these files for a multi-file
corpus.  If the corpus you're processing consists of a single file,
none of the number2name files are necessary, and they will not be
generated.

    This is clearly a bug in the infomap-install program, in that the
output it generates is misleading (it makes it look like something is
wrong, since files are "missing", when in fact it doesn't need those
files).  I have to admit that the infomap-install script was something
of an afterthought, added during the packaging.  All it does it copy
files from one directory to another... you can easily accomplish the
same thing by hand or with a script of your own.


                 Hope that helps,

                          Scott


On 8/25/06, Henry Ip [LIB] <lb...@in...> wrote:
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> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Thank you very much for your advice.
> After a clean re-installation of the software Cygwin in my windows XP, I
> have succesfully install the infomap software and have a trial test.
> However, I have some questions below and may need help from you,
> I have already test with the following command, it works
> $ associate -t -c sf suit NOT lawsuit
> However, when i try to use the following command, the some files seem
> missing and i have capture the output as the "install_infomap_model.txt"
> $ infomap-install sf
>
> Also, I want to setup the web interface for this software,
> can you give me more details about this?
> E.g. Which package want, setup  hints, or how to setup?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Henry
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