Ubuntu_Install.md

Phantasm - Ubuntu Installation

Dependencies

• PhantomJS

###Install Node.js 0.10.x (0.10.15 when this project started)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils git-core
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install nodejs

###Install Node Package Manager (npm)

cd /tmp 
git clone http://github.com/isaacs/npm.git 
cd npm 
sudo make install

###Install PhantomJS cd /usr/local/share wget https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 tar xjf phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

###Install Phantom Font dependency sudo apt-get install fontconfig

(update - only installing the above font library was causing issues with non-serif fonts, and probably others. So add more then clear font cache. Did 2 things. 1 - Check /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment out the following lines. Then apt-get update)

# /etc/apt/sources.list should contain these:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig 
 
    sudo apt-get install fontconfig libfontconfig-dev libfontenc-dev libfontenc1 libxfont-dev libxfont1 xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic ttf-mscorefonts-installer libxext-dev libwayland-dev
    
    sudo fc-cache -fv

###Create a directory for the project and clone with GIT (or download .zip file from GitHub

cd ~/ 
git clone https://github.com/apollolm/phantasm.git

###Navigate to Phantasm folder, and npm install from the console:

cd phantasm
sudo npm install

###Optionally modify settings.js file

Specify the port you'd like to use. If you want to add the IP or servername to use, you can specify that in the settings file also.

settings.application.port = 80;
settings.application.ip = null;

###For development purposes, install nodemon Nodemon monitors your node project, and will automatically restart your node project if there are any file changes.

npm install -g nodemon

###Run the project temporarily using node or nodemon Start the project (assuming installs have all succeeded and you've created the settings.js file)

node Phantasm.js

-or-

nodemon Phantasm.js

###To Run as a 'service' (keeps running after you log off the machine), install forever module

sudo npm install -g forever

To run this project using forever:

cd to the phantasm folder, then

sudo forever start phantasm.js

To restart forever service

sudo forever restart 0

To stop forever service

sudo forever stop 0

Add a utility to delete output files older than X minutes

Edit the crontab file to add your own script to the list of items to be scheduled.

crontab -e

Once open, add an entry (every hour, delete pngs from output folder):

0 * * * * find /home/ubuntu/phantasm/output/* -mmin +59 -exec rm -f {} \;