IOError: SIFT executable not found

shackenberg / Minimal-Bag-of-Visual-Words-Image-Classifier

Implementation of a content based image classifier using the bag of visual words approach in Python together with Lowe's SIFT and Libsvm.

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Closed fatihsamet closed 10 years ago

fatihsamet commented 10 years ago

Hi, I got that message in Ubuntu 13.10. I did exactly what is intructed in read me. And i cheked my folder and i can see "sift" file in it.

shackenberg commented 10 years ago

Hi, I can reproduce the problem and will look into it. Thanks.

shackenberg commented 10 years ago

So,

apparently the problem is that sift is a 32Bit executable and one needs to install additional libraries to make it run on 64Bit systems.

One can make it work in Ubuntu with: sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

fatihsamet commented 10 years ago

I works for my machine thank you