[Mapserver-users] Install help

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

You may install a package on RedHat from an RPM or from sources.
The old GD was installed from an RPM, that is way you see it with rpm -q
You build the new version from sources, so  rpm -q can't see it.
Now you have two versions of GD on your  linux box, the old one in the 
/usr and the new one in /usr/local. 
You must specify the location for the configure script of mapserver 
--with-gd=DIR to force mapserver to use the new one.
You may remove the old GD with rpm -e package.

Probably you won't find an rpm for the newest GD (I couldn't).
So rpm can handle packages installed from .rpm files.

--
Zoltan

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ethan Granger wrote:

> My system: RedHat 9.0, Apache 2.0.40, PHP 4.2.2
>  
> I am a linux newbie and I am trying to install mapserver.  I noticed that I needed an upgraded GD library than came with my RH9.  When I typed the command "rpm -q gd" I got "gd-1.8.4-11" which I isn't good enough according to the instructions.  So this is what I did:
>  
> Downloaded gd-2.0.15 to /root
> typed "tar -zxvf gd-2.0.15.tar.gz"
> typed "cd gd-2.0.15"
> typed "./configure"
> typed "make"
> typed "make install"
> typed "cd /"
> typed "rpm -q gd" and "I got gd-1.8.4-11"
>  
> What gives? How come gd was not upgraded?  How do I figure out where RH9 installed it and remove it? or overwrite it?
>  
> thanks for your help.
>