For Fedora, I think you want the EPEL and ELGIS repos. See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS
Mike -- Michael Smith Remote Sensing/GIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers On 6/10/11 3:34 AM, "Chris Green" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brent > > Thank you for your very helpful comments, much appreciated. It is pretty clear > to me that I have to start by changing my elderly Fedora to something better > suited to supporting GIS applications including Mapserver 6.0. It is strange > I¹m not at all afraid of PHP/Mapscript (although the documentation is not > great) or of Javascript, but the whole Linux world is just so confusing that I > get a form of paralysis by analysis soon after I start trying to compare the > different options. > > Anyway I will certainly take a look at Ubuntu / OpenSuse. > > > Chris > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 10 June 2011 07:21 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!) > > Hi Chris, > > I'm a Suse/Ubuntu user, in both cases totally because of the well supported > GIS related packages for these distros. So I have completely avoided the > issues are facing right now :-) Though I'd imagine it will not be long before > 6.0 is available natively for Fedora, given 5.6 is supported. > > I'm not too familiar with the RH Linux family, but the OpenSuse Geo repository > partially supports Centos & RH4/5, and I have found the maintainers there to > be very helpful. If a RH or Centos build will be compatible with Fedora, it > would be worth asking around there. Mapserver is not currently built for these > distros, but someone may be prepared to do this for you. > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/ > > Personally, I'd suggest you switch to a distro that does what you want, & if > that includes well maintained & supported, pre-built mapserver (& related) > packages, Ubuntu & OpenSuse are well worth considering. > > HTH, > > Brent Wood > > > > --- On Fri, 6/10/11, Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH > <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!) > To: "Chris Green" <[email protected]>, "'Stephen Woodbridge'" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 3:31 AMChris, > > What Linux OS are you on? There are packages for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc. > > See http://mapserver.org/download.html#linux > > > On 6/9/11 11:04 AM, "Chris Green" <[email protected] > </mc/[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Hi Steve >> > >> > Thanks for your comments. I have read the documentation and realise that >> > there will be quite a few changes to my mapfile(s). I'm not at all worried >> > about that, it's just a question of patiently working through the changes. >> > However I am very apprehensive of the upgrade itself. Before I installed >> the >> > FGS package I spent many, many hours trying to compile and install >> Mapserver >> > myself but eventually had to admit defeat and resort to FGS. >> > >> > Now there is no FGS to fall back on, I'm hoping for some guidance (or maybe >> > just some encouragement!) >> > >> > >> > Chris >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> >> > [mailto:[email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of >> Stephen >> > Woodbridge >> > Sent: 09 June 2011 15:42 >> > To: [email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!) >> > >> > On 6/9/2011 8:58 AM, Chris Green wrote: >>> >> Hi All >>> >> >>> >> I have been running Mapserver 5.4 for about 18 months on a Fedora core 7 >>> >> Unix platform. I installed it via the FGS installer package which made >>> >> the installation process relatively straightforward. >>> >> >>> >> Now I see that Mapserver 6.0 has been released and it includes some >>> >> features that I really want to take advantage of, particularly the >>> >> ability to cluster dense features. My problem is that apparently the FGS >>> >> package has not been updated, so from the Mapserver website it looks >>> >> like I have start from scratch with a scarily long list of libraries and >>> >> compilations required to install Mapserver 6.0 from scratch. As >>> >> something of a Unix novice I don't fancy this very much! >>> >> >>> >> I am wondering if there is a simple way to in effect replace my existing >>> >> Mapserver 5.4 executable with Mapserver 6.0 - could I assume that >>> >> Mapserver 6.0 only requires the same libraries as 5.4 and just compile >>> >> the 6.0 executable? Any guidance on the direction to take here would be >>> >> gratefully received. >> > >> > Hi Chris, >> > >> > Be aware that 5.4 to 6.0 is probably NOT a transparent upgrade from a >> > mapfile point of view. Make sure you read the mapserver migration guide. >> > One of the big changes that we made in 6.0 was to clean up some of the >> > mapfile syntax and remove some deprecated tags. These should not be >> > major changes but it is likely that some (all?) of your mapfiles will >> > need to be tweaked to get them to work. >> > >> > So please plan accordingly. >> > >> > -Steve W >> > _______________________________________________ >> > mapserver-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > mapserver-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > </mc/[email protected]> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
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