[mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

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.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Hopfgartner <peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com>
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Compiling on CentOS 5
> To: "Worth Lutz" <wal3 at mindspring.com>
> Cc: "'MAPSERVER-USERS'" <mapserver-users at 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-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at 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
> 
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