Gerry,
I would be interested in your findings. I am trying to install mapserver/mapscript on RHEL 5 but have not found current rpms for MapServer. I'm not much on linux but did get the FGS version working. I was wondering what your experience was and where you found the packages to get your system up and running. Thanks, Worth -----Original Message----- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Gerry Creager Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:46 PM To: Jeff McKenna Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5 Thanks, Jeff: More in-line, below... On 5/25/10 7:29 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Gerald Creager wrote: >> I'm having to reinstall Mapserver after some significant hardware >> issues. I was perusing the documentation and find several explicit >> entries for installing on Windows. >> >> For Linux, there's the suggestion to use FGS (used it before, isn't >> latest version, but will probably work), or Debian. Sorry, guys, >> ubuntu is a debian variant, so while it's nice that there's GIS >> systems for debian, they are, to my mind, the same. >> >> My question: Where's the information on dependencies to compile and >> use Mapserver? If they reside in the pdf documentation, I've tried to >> snag it, and the pdf appears damaged: unreadable in eVince or Acrobat >> reader. >> >> Looking for suggestions on how I might proceed. >> > > Gerry, > > Here are some of my comments: > > - FGS version 9.5 contains MapServer 5.6.3 (the latest MapServer > release), I use it often and recommend it The wiki link to FGS needs to be updated. When I followed the link, it was for 5.4, which I can use, but since we crashed so much, I wanted to go ahead and get current. > - documentation for compiling MapServer on Unix systems is found at: > http://www.mapserver.org/installation/unix.html I just *knew* it had to be around somewhere. However the PDF link produced a bad download several times for the Mapserver docs... That might bear looking into. I tried it at home, even using several methods to download it, and two readers to look at the results, then, last night, I tried again from home and still failed. Is Mapserver allergic to Texans, perhaps? In the end, I fell back to what I thought I remembered from years past, and that (surprisingly) worked. It was a bit more work than having the instructions in front of you, but it's good to know I could still do it. > - if you feel like giving back to the community, as you travel down the > compilation path you could record your steps in the MapServer wiki, so > others can learn from your steps: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ I'll try to get started on that today. It's been awhile since I've contributed anything save moral support to the community, so it's time I did some good. gerry -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.crea...@tamu.edu Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users