Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Ubuntu 10.10 Install Foca to Capture Metadata

You can Find out more about Foca by watching the following two presentations 1 - 2 or HERE.


Before you install FOCA your gonna need two applications.
1: Wine
2: Unrar


To install Wine just throw the following into Terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3


To install Unrar just throw the following into Terminal
sudo apt-get install unrar

Now we move on to download Foca and the Dll's package it needs to run. Your going to have to supply an Email address at the following link to be giving a link to the actual file, but it's literally that simple. You should get a response mail back right away
http://www.informatica64.com/DownloadFOCA/

Now download the Dll package in order to make Foca run properly
https://sites.google.com/site/h4ckpl4y3s/DllsFOCA.rar

Now your ready to install Foca :)

1) Extract FOCA_Free_2.5.6.zip and Double click Setup.msi (Wine Begins)

2) Copy and paste this into Terminal:
winetricks dotnet20 fontfix gdiplus

3) Browse to: Start -> Wine -> Browse C: Drive -> Program Files -> Informatica64 -> FOCA free and move DllsFOCA.rar into this folder.

4) Your going to need to rename (take out the space) DllsFOCA.rar to unrar this file, afterwards Open a Terminal and copy and paste this:
unrar e DllsFOCA.rar

You should now have a Foca Free Icon on your desktop, just double click it and enjoy.

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