Automatic panoramas with hugin and autopano

11 Responses to Automatic panoramas with hugin and autopano

1. gt says:

   August 27, 2008 at 4:56 pm

   I tried sudo port install autopano-sift-c. Response: sudo: port: command not found

   Ideas?
2. matthew says:

   September 3, 2008 at 9:53 am

   You need to install MacPorts. See http://www.macports.org/install.php
3. Ingo says:

   November 21, 2008 at 5:03 am

   hm… same for me. installed macports, but still command not found. don’t even know if macports installed successfully… or how i could check that… why so difficult?
4. matthew says:

   November 24, 2008 at 12:46 pm

   The problem is that most MacPort apps are command-line-only — there are a couple of exceptions, but for the most part, you’re playing with it in the shell.

   If you haven’t lived in the terminal much, it’s deep water to be tossed into. I respect your grumping.

   Check out http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell — you’ll want to edit your “.bashrc” in your user’s home directory, and make sure these lines got added:

   export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
   export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH
   export DISPLAY=:0.0
   

   Save the file, start a new terminal, and when you type:

   which port

   you should see

   /opt/local/bin/port
5. Martin says:

   January 23, 2009 at 5:38 pm

   I tired to install this using the terminal. I get the following:

   Warning: Can’t open index file for source: rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
   Error: search for portname autopano-sift-c failed: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
   Martins-Laptop:~ gradek$

   I have MacPort installed. Running OSX 10.5

   May, just boot to windows to use hugin if I can’t get this working without loosing another 4 hours of my life.
6. matthew says:

   January 24, 2009 at 2:12 am

   Did you run “selfupdate”? I went on to a different Mac (running 10.5.6) and it seems like things are currently OK:

   $ sudo port selfupdate
   
   MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
   Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.700
   
   The MacPorts installation is not outdated so it was not updated
   
   $ sudo port install autopano-sift-c
   --->  Fetching cmake
   --->  Attempting to fetch cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/cmake
   --->  Verifying checksum(s) for cmake
   --->  Extracting cmake
   --->  Configuring cmake
   --->  Building cmake
   --->  Staging cmake into destroot
   --->  Installing cmake @2.6.2_0
   --->  Activating cmake @2.6.2_0
   --->  Cleaning cmake
   --->  Fetching libpano13
   --->  Attempting to fetch libpano13-2.9.12.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/libpano13
   --->  Verifying checksum(s) for libpano13
   --->  Extracting libpano13
   --->  Configuring libpano13
   --->  Building libpano13
   --->  Staging libpano13 into destroot
   --->  Installing libpano13 @2.9.12_0
   --->  Activating libpano13 @2.9.12_0
   --->  Cleaning libpano13
   --->  Fetching autopano-sift-c
   --->  Verifying checksum(s) for autopano-sift-c
   --->  Extracting autopano-sift-c
   --->  Configuring autopano-sift-c
   --->  Building autopano-sift-c
   --->  Staging autopano-sift-c into destroot
   --->  Installing autopano-sift-c @2.4-2903_0
   --->  Activating autopano-sift-c @2.4-2903_0
   --->  Cleaning autopano-sift-c
   
7. Charaka says:

   July 28, 2009 at 6:11 am

   Please help me on this error. Macport is installed. But cannot install cmake. Following error appears. Thank you.

   Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command ” cd “/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_cmake/work/cmake-2.6.4″ && ./configure –prefix=/opt/local –mandir=/share/man –docdir=/share/doc/cmake ” returned error 6
   Command output: ———————————————
   CMake 2.6-4, Copyright (c) 2007 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium
   ———————————————
   Error when bootstrapping CMake:
   Cannot find appropriate C compiler on this system.
   Please specify one using environment variable CC.
   See cmake_bootstrap.log for compilers attempted.

   ———————————————
   Log of errors: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_cmake/work/cmake-2.6.4/Bootstrap.cmk/cmake_bootstrap.log
   ———————————————

   Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
8. matthew says:

   July 28, 2009 at 9:15 am

   @Charaka: You need to follow step 1 — install Xcode.
9. charaka says:

   July 29, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   Thank you, Matthew. It worked
10. Hannah says:

    July 27, 2010 at 5:10 am

    Hi Matthew,
    You’ll have to forgive me if I ask stupid questions, but I’m a bit of a computer novice, who is very keen to make some nice panoramic photos without spending hours picking control points. I’ve downloaded Hugin and MacPorts from your links, but am not sure where to go from here. Your instructions are a bit too technical for me. Could you provide me with a more step-by-step dummies guide to installing this?
    Cheers.
11. matthew says:

    July 27, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    Since I wrote this post I purchased a Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet that came with Photoshop LE, and that does excellent panorama stitching. If you can get a copy of that, it may be an easier route for you.