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<p>Spatialite - like many projects - is moving along faster than the
package maintainers can repackage. The components of the
spatialite stack available for Ubuntu from the repos are nearly a
year old, and some are not available yet at all (the new "readosm"
tool and the library to connect to xls files).</p>
<p>Previously, in 5.5 we had one package, spatialite-bin, and a few
other pieces compiled in. Even then we were installing older
versions.<br>
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<p>I've put together a new install_spatialite.sh script [1] which
downloads and compiles the whole spatialite suite. It seems to be
working well on a VM of the alpha1 build that Angelos has
prepared. Before I suggest to push it into the build scripts, can
others have a look, and try it out so the bugs surface?</p>
<p>One caveat: to build all the components of the suite requires
several dev packages that are not part of the default xubuntu
distro. I install them all as part of the script, and this totals
to around 20 MB of disk space. And worse, some of the spatialite
components need a c++ compiler, also not part of xubuntu by
default. When I install g++ we take a hit of another ~25MB of disk
space. I guess I should add a apt-get purge for all these
additional development packages after the builds are done to
recover disk space?<br>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Micha<br>
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<p>[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.surfaces.co.il/dl/install_spatialite.sh">http://www.surfaces.co.il/dl/install_spatialite.sh</a><br>
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Micha Silver
GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.surfaces.co.il">http://www.surfaces.co.il</a></pre>
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