Installing AVAA Toolkit on Ubuntu

Install Java

sudo apt install default-jre

Install FFmpeg

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Install Python with venv

sudo apt install python3-venv

Install PyEnv (recommended)

PyEnv should also be installed to allow separate Python versions.

From pyenv suggested build environment:

sudo apt install make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev curl git \
libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev

Then use the official automatic installer

curl -fsSL https://pyenv.run | bash

Finally, follow instructions to add PyEnv to PATH

Open a new shell and check it worked with pyenv --version

Install VLC (optional)

sudo apt install vlc

Install AVAA

cd ~/
wget https://avaa-toolkit.org/release/latest -O avaa-latest.zip
unzip avaa-latest.zip
cd avaa-toolkit && chmod +x ./avaa-toolkit.sh

Start AVAA

./avaa-toolkit.sh