[Live-demo] Spatialite on version 6.0

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Micha,

Thanks for this new script, I will test it before alpha2, so we can include
it by then.
The dev packages can be uninstalled at the end of the script...

Regards,
Angelos


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:

>  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).
>
> Previously, in 5.5 we had one package, spatialite-bin, and a few other
> pieces compiled in. Even then we were installing older versions.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Micha
>
> [1] http://www.surfaces.co.il/dl/install_spatialite.sh
>
>
>  --
> Micha Silver
> GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co.http://www.surfaces.co.il
>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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