Dear Steve,
As a complement to what Paolo said: I don't know about other distros,
and I'll talk only about Debian which I use on a daily basis. A fresh
Debian install (stable or testing or even sid) is not up-to-date in
terms of GIS packages. Examples:
- QGIS: last release is 1.7; Debian only provides 1.4 in all flavours of
Debian;
- GDAL: last release is 1.8.1; Debian provides 1.6 for stable, 1.7 for
testing, and 1.8 for experimental, which is hardly installable due to
dependency troubles (but they are working on it).
I don't mean that Debian is a bad choice... Especially since I'm using
it as my primary platform! It is indeed very good for many reasons. But
if you want cutting-edge GIS tools, you'll need to tweak Debian a bit.
For example, you can find how to install most recent QGIS versions here:
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/DownloadFr#Debian
Back to PostGIS now. If you want the latest stable release, which is
1.5.3, a simple
[sudo] aptitude install postgis
under testing should do the trick. If you want to run stable (which is a
good choice), you can use some apt-pinning to be able to install
packages from testing, or you can use PostGIS 1.5.2 with the previous
command line.
If you're interested in the development version, i.e. PostGIS 2.0 with
raster support, it'll be slightly more complicated to have a complete
GIS platform (but not impossible I guess). For instance, you'll need to
compile everything by hand from GDAL 1.8 to PostGIS 2.0 through QGIS...
But in this case, there is no GIS-related reason to use Debian:
compilation should be the same under any Linux distro, so just pick up
the one you like (or the one for which you have people to help you around).
Hope this helps,
Mathieu.
Le 11/11/2011 04:19, Paolo Cavallini a écrit :
Il 10/11/2011 17:41, steve.tout...@inspq.qc.ca ha scritto:
Hi,
Sorry for cross-posting on several lists, but we are in the process of
taking some important decisions, on the OS to use...
For several years we have mapserver, gdal and Postgis, etc... running
on a Windows server.
We plan to migrate our GIS tools from the Windows server to SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 11.
I heard bad comments on using SLES with mapserver, postgres/postgis,
gdal, etc...Taht the installation of these tools was a pain compare to
OpenSUSE or UBUNTU.
Comments on using and maintaining GIS infrastructure with SLES 11
would be very appreciated.
Hi all.
I think having GIS packages ready and updated is the most important
thing in choosing a Linux distro. Debian should be the best, as it is
updated and wdely used and tested.
All the best.
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