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Secrets of building JHOVE2
The current beta of JHOVE2 is rather tricky to build. With some help from Marisa Strong, I’ve managed to do it. Here’s a guide which may be helpful.
1. Download JHOVE2. If you have Mercurial, follow the instructions. Otherwise use the “Get Source” menu item to get the .gz file.
2. Get a current version of Maven if you don’t have one.
3. If got the gzip file, expand it and the tarball which it contains. This will create a
main
directory.4.
cd main
. The first recommendation is to runmv compile
, but this apparently requires an environment which isn’t released yet, so instead domvn assembly:assembly -DskipTests
5. cd into the
target
directory. This will have the filejhove2-2.0.0.zip
. Unzip this in place.6. The directory
jhove2-2.0.0
was just created. cd into it. This contains the scriptjhove2.sh
. Run this from the command line with no arguments, and you’ll get a usage message if everything worked correctly.To do stuff with JHOVE2, the user guide (PDF) is helpful.
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