[El] epsg file missing and proj is looking for it

[Peter Hopfgartner]

I agree with Frank. We should consider to include proj-epsg in the requirements list of proj (and maybe drop a note to upstream Fedora about this).

Peter Hopfgartner
 
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--------Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] epsg file missing and proj is looking for it
Date: 09.11.2010 17:24

>Martin Ouellet wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've just installed mapserver 5.6.5-3.el5.elgis on a CentOS machine 
>> (64bits).
>> I did'nt have any error message while installing the RPM with YUM but I
>
>> think that proj is not well installed.
>> 
>> "yum list proj" return
>> proj.x86_64                                 4.7.0-1.el5.elgis          
>
>>                        installed
>> 
>> 1-I cannot find the epsg file on my machine ( find / -type f -name epsg
>
>> = nothing)
>> 2-"which proj" return /usr/bin/proj but it's not a directory, just a
>file
>> 3-I received this message when I start MapServer: Projection library 
>> error. no system list, errno: 2
>
>Martin,
>
>I would suggest also installing the proj-epsg and proj-nad packages to
>get a full featured proj installation.  I'm not sure why these are
>segregated in this fashion.  At the very least I'd think that proj-epsg
>should be required with proj.
>
>Best regards,
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