Chris, What Linux OS are you on? There are packages for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc.
See http://mapserver.org/download.html#linux On 6/9/11 11:04 AM, "Chris Green" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve > > Thanks for your comments. I have read the documentation and realise that > there will be quite a few changes to my mapfile(s). I'm not at all worried > about that, it's just a question of patiently working through the changes. > However I am very apprehensive of the upgrade itself. Before I installed the > FGS package I spent many, many hours trying to compile and install Mapserver > myself but eventually had to admit defeat and resort to FGS. > > Now there is no FGS to fall back on, I'm hoping for some guidance (or maybe > just some encouragement!) > > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen > Woodbridge > Sent: 09 June 2011 15:42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!) > > On 6/9/2011 8:58 AM, Chris Green wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I have been running Mapserver 5.4 for about 18 months on a Fedora core 7 >> Unix platform. I installed it via the FGS installer package which made >> the installation process relatively straightforward. >> >> Now I see that Mapserver 6.0 has been released and it includes some >> features that I really want to take advantage of, particularly the >> ability to cluster dense features. My problem is that apparently the FGS >> package has not been updated, so from the Mapserver website it looks >> like I have start from scratch with a scarily long list of libraries and >> compilations required to install Mapserver 6.0 from scratch. As >> something of a Unix novice I don't fancy this very much! >> >> I am wondering if there is a simple way to in effect replace my existing >> Mapserver 5.4 executable with Mapserver 6.0 - could I assume that >> Mapserver 6.0 only requires the same libraries as 5.4 and just compile >> the 6.0 executable? Any guidance on the direction to take here would be >> gratefully received. > > Hi Chris, > > Be aware that 5.4 to 6.0 is probably NOT a transparent upgrade from a > mapfile point of view. Make sure you read the mapserver migration guide. > One of the big changes that we made in 6.0 was to clean up some of the > mapfile syntax and remove some deprecated tags. These should not be > major changes but it is likely that some (all?) of your mapfiles will > need to be tweaked to get them to work. > > So please plan accordingly. > > -Steve W > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
