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
RE: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
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. 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 ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
RE: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
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
RE: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
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 AM 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
Re: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:08 -0500, 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. Usually I take the the current Fedora source packages and recompile them. If you are comfortable recompiling rpm source packages, then this may give you what you need. The hardest one, IMHO, is gdal. Looking for suggestions on how I might proceed. Thanks, Gerry Peter -- 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
Re: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
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 - documentation for compiling MapServer on Unix systems is found at: http://www.mapserver.org/installation/unix.html - 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/ -jeff -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
That's a trick I'll try. OF note, when using available RPMs theoretically for CentOS 5: * the netcdf RPM doesn't create a link that's just libnetcdf.so and this link needs to be created. * the link flr libpd.so needs to be created, too * the RPMs for proj4 and proj4-devel do not provide the epsg info and put things in /usr rather than /usr/local. everything that is expected, for example, in /usr/local/share/epsg needs to go into /usr/share/epsg and then it'll work fine. We were able to find appropriate RPMs for all dependencies. I'll make a list and serve that up soon. gerry On 5/25/10 5:42 AM, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:08 -0500, 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. Usually I take the the current Fedora source packages and recompile them. If you are comfortable recompiling rpm source packages, then this may give you what you need. The hardest one, IMHO, is gdal. Looking for suggestions on how I might proceed. Thanks, Gerry Peter -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.crea...@tamu.edu Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas AM 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
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 AM 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
