See: http://www.chasedavis.com/2007/apr/29/mapserver-newsroom-part-2/
Personally I prefer to run OpenSuse as a mapserver box, largely due to the work the guys who maintain the GEO repository put in to make sure that current versions of a wide range of GIS/GPS related applications work well. There are some Centos/RH packages maintained there ase well, via the OpenSuse build service, but mapserver is not included. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/ & for those wanting a Postgis solution: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo:/ Ubuntu comes second, but note the Debian & Ubuntu repositories are less complete in the GIS arena & often version or two behind. Cheers, Brent Wood --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Peter Hopfgartner <peter.hopfgart...@r3-gis.com> wrote: > From: Peter Hopfgartner <peter.hopfgart...@r3-gis.com> > Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5 > To: "Worth Lutz" <w...@mindspring.com> > Cc: "'MAPSERVER-USERS'" <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> > Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 7:23 PM > On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 13:30 -0400, > Worth Lutz wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > Hi Worth, > > there are current RPMs referenced at > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS > > You can follow the RPM packaging of various Open Source GIS > packages at > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/el, the list is > very low > traffic. > > Peter > > > > > -----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 > > -- > Dott. 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