[GRASSLIST:591] Re: About FOSS4G Toolkit CD

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Ravi,

The FOSS4G toolkit at wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4g/
has been developed using "Mandriva Linux 2006"

Thanks for pointing out the problem with download link on the
website. Have corrected it now.
Mandriva 2006 can be downloaded from

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors/2006iso

Regards

Venkat


RAVI KUMAR wrote:
> Hi Venkat,
>   Nice compilation and extremely useful for people with slow internet speeds like
>   in India.
>   Alas I have only Mandrake10.. and returned
>   Error: UN REGISTERED RPM
> I believe we are supposed to use Mandrake10.1
>   and the website U gave is nice, but could not get any of the sites open for
>   downloading Mandriva2006 from (http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors/2006)
>    
>   Last time I downlloaded Mandrake10 from sites given by Ur researchers
>   at Thailand. They even posted me a Live-Cd.
>   Hope we can use it soon.
>   Cheers
>   Ravi
>   
> Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
>   Dear All,
> 
> Glad to announce that our FOSS4G Toolkit ISO-Image
> can be downloaded from http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4g/
> 
> You can directly download the ISO-Image from
> http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4g/download/
> 
> Hope the ISO-CD can be uploaded to other sites,
> so as save our bandwidth.
> 
> The CD includes GRASS-GIS, MapServer, GDAL, OSSIM, QGIS,
> PostGIS, Mapbuilder, Mapbender, Cartoweb, Appformap,
> kaMap, Worldkit, Plone, PrimaGIS and also some GPS related
> RRM packages. A simple (crude but it works) installer
> that can be run to install all RPM packages and necessary
> tools libraries for compiling packages like GRASS (5.0.3 and
> 6.0.2), Qgis (0.74), GDAL1.3.1, PostGIS etc.
> 
> The FOSS4G ISO-Image was developed and tested on Mandriva Linux
> 2006. The Download edition of Mandriva 2006 has to be obtained
> (http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors/2006) and
> installed before installing the FOSS4G CD.
> 
> Most of the remaining problems are due to our limited knowledge
> and time. We would be happy to have if the CD could be tested
> and improved.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Venka
> 
> 
> 
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