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

[Alexandre Leroux]

Hi list,

Just a quick note to followup on my previous interventions. Mainly due 
to difficulties installing MGOS on Debian Sarge and after testing 
prototypes, it is probable that we'll elect another open source 
webmapping solution (for the curious ones; PostGIS/GeoServer/OpenLayers) 
for our needs.

I shared in a previous post instructions and modifications to build MGOS 
1.1 on Debian.

Thanks and have fun improving MGOS !

Alex



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

-- 
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