[mapguide-users] Status on installing MGOS on Debian / Linux

[Alexandre Leroux]

Dear list,

I'm new to the list and new to MapGuide OS. My organization decided to 
jump in the webmapping bandwagon. At this time, a MapGuide OS solution 
is favored over a MapServer one.

One of my colleague has been trying to compile and install MapGuide OS 
on Debian and many problems have been encountered. We don't and can't 
have root access (not until the product gains operational status). We 
also tried installing on Fedora Core using the root account, with 
similar problems (but we really need it to work on Debian, not other 
Linux flavors).

Before going further in details (e.g. which versions of gcc, make, MGOS, 
FDO, the numerous configure and compile errors we encountered, etc), I'd 
like to know what is the status of installing MapGuide Open Source on 
Debian. Is it normal we have so much trouble? Have people succeeded? :-)

Thanks a lot,

Alex
-- 
Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Division
alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca