[Mapserver-users] Install help

woodbri at swoodbridge.com woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Mon Aug 11 09:39:23 PDT 2003


Yes, but in this case you can check the dependency if you want and 
remove them all. But the main one is PHP which you have to remove 
also and install from the tar file anyway as a CGI sapi and the other 
one is webalizer and if you are using it then do the same for it.

-Steve W.

On 11 Aug 2003 at 14:32, Siki Zoltan wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote:
> 
> > Siki,
> > 
> > You need to uninstall the rpm first with:
> > 
> > rpm -e --nodeps gd
> > rpm -e --nodeps gd-devel
> 
> --nodeps can be dangerous mainly if the newer version gd 2.0.x is in
> /usr/local, a lot of packages may depend on gd, none of them will work
> after removing gd and gd-devel. I have both gd 1.8.x as an rpm and
> 2.0.15 build from source on my system.
> 
> > 
> > Then build and install gd-2.0.15
> > 
> > -Steve W.
> > 
> > On 11 Aug 2003 at 9:08, Siki Zoltan wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Zoltan Siki
> 
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