Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > > I just wrote a quick and dirty cookbook howto for debian: > http://www.duif.net/postgis >
I also run mapserver on debian (though etch and sarge, not lenny; and build from source, not install mapserver dpkgs). Glancing at your notes, I have one minor comment: On your apt-get install line, why specifically "postgresql-8.2-postgis" ? Imho, it's better in general not to specify the version unless you have a specific need for a specific version, and instead just let the packaging system pick what is the most appropriate version. So unless there's a specific need, I would ammend that to say simply "postgresql-postgis". That way your instructions are a bit generic, and if someone is trying them in the future on some other distribution where that maps to a different version, they're not constrained to a specific version (there might be something later, or maybe 8.2 isn't even available for their distribution). Unless, of course, there's some reason that you really need that particular version. (Although on etch and sarge I'm using 8.1 implicitly and all is fine.) Also, if someone is brand new to linux, I might first suggest a released, stable distribution (sarge), and not one that's only available in testing. - Rich -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linux-installation-tp15870306p15881140.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
