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

[Alexandre Leroux]

Thanks a lot Paul and Walt for the feedback,

We'll keep trying to make FDO/MGOS work on Debian and share with the 
list any modifications required if we succeed.

I tried the now-old fgs package a few weeks ago and was surprised at how 
easy this package installed everything (for MapServer) so easily :-) 
I'll look forward for the next version of FGS!

Have a nice Easter,

Alex

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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


Paul Spencer wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> not sure about debian installs, but we are working on a new binary 
> installer for MapGuide using FGS (http://www.maptools.org/fgs/) that 
> should work on essentially any linux system (there are always some 
> problems though).  We have not yet got all the packages built using FGS, 
> but I would expect that it would be available in a few weeks.
> 
> While I am not working on this directly, I do know that there were 
> problems getting it to build with newer GCC (I think we got it working 
> with 3.2 and I heard rumours that someone had it building with a 4.0 of 
> some version).  I do know that it involves some black magic ;)
> 
> Keep watching the list for some kind of announcement on this front.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> On 4-Apr-07, at 9:42 AM, Alexandre Leroux wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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