GPRename
11 May 2002

Summary

• Installed on both gubbio and cyberspace, as icons under steen
• Its main use is to handle renaming of captured video files
• To start from root, goto /home/steen/gprename and enter ./gprename

Guide and software

• A wonderful batch rename GUI at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gprename

Installation history

I had to install perl for gimp to get it to run. I mounted the SuSE CD2 with a

mount /dev/hdb cdrom

from the / directory and found the rpm for cyberspace too, but it turned out it was already installed.

It's beautiful -- does everything I wanted, and with an austere and quiet order! Incredible! It even has an undo feature.

I untarred into /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/gprename -- it wants to be run from there, or you have to put it into your home directory and start it with a perl /home/steen/gprename/gprename.pl command -- which is fine, I
guess.

To allow it to start from an icon, I copied the whole package (three small files) to /home/steen on both gubbio and cyberspace, and then I changed line 34 in /home/steen/gprename/gprename.pl from

$langfile = './languages/lang.';

to this, so that I can start gprename with an icon:

$langfile = 'home/steen/gprename/languages/lang.';

This allowed the gprename.pl to find the language file. I could also have added the directory -- and other directories -- to the @INC line (line 28) -- that might be more elegant, and would allow the program to be started from anywhere. I could look into putting in in /usr/local/bin and leaving the language file in /home/steen. Still, it works well and this is no big deal.