#16651: install libxml2-dev before PostGIS on Ubuntu
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Reporter: Eric | Owner: nobody
Jarvies | Status: new
Type: | Component: Documentation
Cleanup/optimization | Severity: Normal
Milestone: | Keywords:
Version: 1.3 | Has patch: 0
Resolution: | Needs tests: 0
Triage Stage: | Easy pickings: 0
Unreviewed |
Needs documentation: 0 |
Patch needs improvement: 0 |
UI/UX: 0 |
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Changes (by aaugustin):
* needs_better_patch: => 0
* needs_tests: => 0
* needs_docs: => 0
Comment:
There's a specific procedure for Ubuntu described here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#ubuntu-
debian-gnu-linux If you follow it, `apt-get` will take care of the
dependencies.
Now, if you're compiling stuff yourself, you obviously need make, gcc,
etc. and you have to deal with dependencies manually. None of this is
currently described in the documentation, maybe because we assume people
who compile their own stuff instead of using the distribution's packages
know what they're doing, maybe because we don't want to duplicate each
library's installation instructions.
Sure, it couldn't hurt to add a line saying "you need libxml-dev", but is
it the only dependency? Are you sure you didn't have other dependencies
already installed? If we provide instructions on the dependencies, they
must be complete.
I'm not sure how much detail we want to provide in this doc, but I see
that it's not kept up to date very well (what about Debian 6?), so I think
it should be kept simple. I'll let someone who is more familiar with
GeoDjango decide.
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