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There is the FGS installer package (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://maptools.org/fgs/">http://maptools.org/fgs/</a>) for
Linux. But it's still using version 5.0.2, as far as I know.<br>
<br>
Christy<br>
<br>
Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">exactly.<br>
i built my own 5.2.0 too. But i'm not a system admin really and it's a
bit of a hassle. If i were planning to compile my software myself i
would use a different distro (Gentoo?).<br>
I've been posting some stuff on the ubuntu forums too, but i don't get
too much response there.<br>
I guess that 5.2.0 doesn't get into lenny (and so ubuntu 8.10) because
it hasn't been tested for long enough. It is still in the
"experimental" repository (thanks <span class="HcCDpe"><span
class="lDACoc">nico mandery</span></span> for pointing this out to
me), so not even in "unstable" yet.<br>
And that will probably mean that we won't see any higher than 5.0.x in
lenny - the stable debian versions for the next ±4 years. I know it's a
choice for stability and security -- all about priorities, so nothing
to make a fuss about -- but it's unconfortable nonetheless.<br>
<br>
So lets try a different angle: if OSGeo are providing a package manager
for windows (osgeo4w), why not provide a repository for Debian / Ubuntu
and another one for RedHat / Fedora ?<br>
Easy for me to say of course, but doesn't it seem unfair that Windows
should be favoured above open source OS's ?<br>
(then, maybe i got it all wrong, so please correct me)<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
WBL<br>
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my experiences with Fedora, they tend to keep the same version of
MapServer that the OS version was released with (so Fedora 9 has 5.0.2,
or something like that, by default). As I want to use the latest
version, I build it for myself. I bet that distributions tend to stay
with what they had when first released for map compatibility reasons.
It would be something to discuss with your distributions package
maintainers.<br>
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"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all
others because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw<br>
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