[OSGeoLive] MB-System software on OSGeoLive 15.0

[Astrid Emde]

Hello Magdalena,

you could try the old OSGeoLive 8 version with the quickstart from 
version 8. You find all OSGeoLive versions on sourceforge.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/osgeo-live/files/

See you

Astrid Emde

Am 31.01.2023 01:15 schrieb Brian M Hamlin:
> Greetings Ms. Idzikowska -
> 
>  thank you for contacting the OSGeoLive team mailing list.
> 
> The MB-System software you are inquiring about has been retired on the
> OSGeoLive disk since 2016. A brief look at the project file
> 
>  https://github.com/dwcaress/MB-System/archive/5.7.8.tar.gz
> 
> shows that the MB_System is built from many components, including:
> 
>  * GDAL and PROJ
> 
>  * GMT and netCDF
> 
>  * python, libfftw3 and the X11 window system
> 
> and more.. it appears that the maintainers of the DebianGIS packaging,
> and the maintainers of UbuntuGIS packaging, have retired the MB-System
> from current builds for some years. Several major components listed
> there have changed in important ways since 2016. Therefore, it is not
> a simple project to build from source code, or make a new dot-deb
> package available.
> 
> You can find appropriate desktop hardware from about ten years ago at
> low cost and install the OSGeoLive release 8 on a disk drive. The
> computer will run MB-System with matching software with OSGeoLive 8
> installed.
> 
> perhaps others on the mailing list might have ideas
> 
> best regards --Brian M Hamlin / MAPLABS / OSGeoLive PSC
> 
>  On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:55:01 +0100, "magdalena-idzikowska at wp.pl"
> <magdalena-idzikowska at wp.pl> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> My name is Magdalena Idzikowska and I am currently a PhD student at
> the Doctoral School of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
> I would like to use the MB-System package to analyze multibeam
> echosounder data. However, after installing a virtual machine (Oracle
> VM VirtualBox), the OSGeoLive 15.0 tool, and typing the first command
> given in the following link:
> [https://live.osgeo.org/archive/8.0/pl/quickstart/mb-system_quickstart.html
> [1]] the machine unfortunately has a problem locating the "mbsystem"
> directory. The situation looks as if it does not exist at all. Is this
> error due to the OSGeoLive version ? Perhaps you are able to point out
> another reason for this situation ? I would be extremely grateful for
> the obtained answer.
> Yours sincerely
> Magdalena Idzikowska
> Department of Geoinformation and Cartography
> Faculty of Geoengineering
> University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
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> [1] 
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