UBUNTU_16_04.md

UBUNTU 16.04 CONFIGURATION

1. Update and upgrade the Ubuntu distribution.

   sudo apt-get update -y
   
   sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" upgrade

2. Install a dependencies for LabelMe. This includes "Apache", "Perl", and git.

   sudo apt-get install -y \
    apache2 \
    git \
    libapache2-mod-perl2 \
    libcgi-session-perl \
    libapache2-mod-php \
    make \
    php

3. Configure Apache.

   sudo a2enmod include
   
   sudo a2enmod rewrite
   
   sudo a2enmod cgi

4. Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf so that the following is the only element in the file.

   sudo tee /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf <<EOL
   <Directory "/var/www/html/LabelMeAnnotationTool">
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
      AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
      AddType text/html .shtml
      AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
      DirectoryIndex index.shtml
   </Directory>
   EOL

5. Clone LabelMe from GitHub. Move the LabelMe files to Apache/web-server directories.

   git clone https://github.com/CSAILVision/LabelMeAnnotationTool.git
   
   sudo mv ./LabelMeAnnotationTool/ /var/www/html/LabelMeAnnotationTool/

6. Run the Makefile.

   cd /var/www/html/LabelMeAnnotationTool/
   
   make
   

7. Update the permissions of the LabelMe files.

   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
   

8. Restart Apache.

   sudo service apache2 restart
   

Note, there is a YouTube tutorial by thelittlekid that demos LabelMe installation on a local Ubuntu 16.04 box.