Thanks Peter, This information is helpful. Google got me close but not close enough.
Worth -----Original Message----- From: Peter Hopfgartner [mailto:peter.hopfgart...@r3-gis.com] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:23 AM To: Worth Lutz Cc: 'Gerry Creager'; 'MAPSERVER-USERS' Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5 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. Peter Hopfgartner R3 GIS Srl - GmbH Via Johann Kravogl-Str. 2 I-39012 Meran/Merano (BZ) Email: peter.hopfgart...@r3-gis.com Tel. : +39 0473 494949 Fax : +39 0473 069902 www : http://www.r3-gis.com XING : http://www.xing.com/go/invita/8917535 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users