[mapserver-dev] Migrate mapserver

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 9/8/2012 3:49 AM, scott159 at free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to migrate mapserver 6.0.3 to 6.2 on linux server. I
> installed it with a script to compile GEOS, GDAL etc ... then
> mapserver. What's best solution if I want to update librairy like
> GEOS, GDAL etc ... ?

This depends on how those packages were installed in the first place and 
what Linux distribution you are using.

Where they all installed from source packages? or were they installed 
via you Linux package manager? Ideally they were installed via the 
package manager along with the -devel packages and you have access to a 
package repository with the newer packages you want.

Otherwise you will need to download the source packages and compile and 
install them. This might get a little tricky if you already have 
packages installed under /usr then you can uninstall the packages if 
they do not remove dependencies you want. or you can leave them and 
install the newer packages under /usr/local

Then make sure you ./configure the new packages you build referring to 
the the newer packages in /usr/local explicitly.

-Steve w