[Live-demo] Does your application work on the click2try GISVM?

[Alex Mandel]

What's the next step after that?
apt-get install mapnik?
or rerun
sudo ./install_mapnik.sh?

Alex

Dane Springmeyer wrote:
> Well, in whatever mode works for your system run:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> 
> Until then the Mapnik package will not be installed/available and it
> appears that I can't do anything to help.
> 
> Dane
> 
> 
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:07 AM, arun.s at tecnics.com wrote:
> 
>> Hello Dane,
>>
>> Currently the running vm has (apt-get upgrade) latest packages
>> upgraded. This upgrades is done on the 'base'  of virtual machine. In
>> click2try vm , if something is applied on  'base' then that is present
>> for running instance of vm.  You might see some 'numbers of pakage'
>> still needs to be upgraded . Its because 'app' layer also has apt-get
>> info (database) just like  'base' which misguides user. This
>> misguiding information is something which we still need to work on and
>> will be fixed soon.
>>
>> If you have observed something different or specific location then
>> please share your thoughts. we will be happy to provide you more details.
>>
>> Now about error ,
>>
>> "dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--remove):
>> failed to delete `/etc.dpkg-tmp': read-only file system".
>>
>> Its because at present , if 'user' require to install any package
>> using dpkg (or apt-get) , we require to run the vm in different mode
>> (which is maintence mode where 'app' or base has write permission)
>> rather then the one which its running for user mode.
>>
>> Does above information provides all information as expected ?
>>
>> Please reply in case you have more queries.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arun Sharma
>> Click2try
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: "Dane Springmeyer" <blake at hailmail.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:46 PM
>> To: "Aneel" <aneel.r at tecnics.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Does your application work on the click2try
>> GISVM?
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Tom Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Aneel and Arun,
>> >
>> > Dane is requesting that we perform an apt-get upgrade. Since you are
>> > assembling all of this for production, I wanted to pass the request
>> > on to
>> > you. Apparently, our /etc/ap/sources.list file did not have an line
>> > for
>> > jaunty-updates. I was thinking that that would be best done in the
>> > base
>> > image, but do not know what the impact will be on the app layer.
>>
>>
>> So the new line was added to the 'sources.list' but 'apt-get update'
>> was not run on this new machine. Why not?
>>
>> I tried to do it myself within the running VM but after all packages
>> are downloaded (took about 20 minutes) dpkg bails with this error:
>>
>> 'dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--remove):
>> failed to delete `/etc.dpkg-tmp': read-only file system
>>
>> Do you know why this is happening?
>>
>> Dane
>>
>>
> 
>