[GRASSLIST:493] Re: About FOSS4G Toolkit CD

[Michael Barton]

Venka,

It is good of you to prepare this. But it puzzles me that you have included
GRASS 5.0.3. 

The current stable version in the GRASS 5 line is 5.4.  Version 5.0.3 is
ancient by software standards.

Michael


On 3/30/06 4:25 PM, "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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