On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:
> The procedure for installing mapnik sounds complicated.
>
> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/DebianInstallation

You can probably skip half of it :)

>
> My hesitations:
> - needs to be production stable.

0.7.1 is better than 0.5

> - is the 0.5 or so version in lenny workable at all?

If you're doing really simple stuff (ie. the screenshot from your
other thread) it probably doesn't matter.

> - do i really need post gres,(we are running mysql)

nope. You can leave off all the packages mentioning cairo, postgresql,
and sqlite3 without any issues at all...

> - no experience with software installation without package management

The folks in #mapnik on freenode can probably help if you get stuck.
Or email the list here...

Rob :)
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