If you try to compile postgis 2 in a debian system, "apt-get build-dep postgis" helps a lot
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mathieu Basille <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Steve, > > As a complement to what Paolo said: I don't know about other distros, and > I'll talk only about Debian which I use on a daily basis. A fresh Debian > install (stable or testing or even sid) is not up-to-date in terms of GIS > packages. Examples: > > - QGIS: last release is 1.7; Debian only provides 1.4 in all flavours of > Debian; > - GDAL: last release is 1.8.1; Debian provides 1.6 for stable, 1.7 for > testing, and 1.8 for experimental, which is hardly installable due to > dependency troubles (but they are working on it). > > I don't mean that Debian is a bad choice... Especially since I'm using it > as my primary platform! It is indeed very good for many reasons. But if you > want cutting-edge GIS tools, you'll need to tweak Debian a bit. For > example, you can find how to install most recent QGIS versions here: > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/**DownloadFr#Debian<http://www.qgis.org/wiki/DownloadFr#Debian> > > Back to PostGIS now. If you want the latest stable release, which is > 1.5.3, a simple > > [sudo] aptitude install postgis > > under testing should do the trick. If you want to run stable (which is a > good choice), you can use some apt-pinning to be able to install packages > from testing, or you can use PostGIS 1.5.2 with the previous command line. > > If you're interested in the development version, i.e. PostGIS 2.0 with > raster support, it'll be slightly more complicated to have a complete GIS > platform (but not impossible I guess). For instance, you'll need to compile > everything by hand from GDAL 1.8 to PostGIS 2.0 through QGIS... But in this > case, there is no GIS-related reason to use Debian: compilation should be > the same under any Linux distro, so just pick up the one you like (or the > one for which you have people to help you around). > > Hope this helps, > Mathieu. > > > Le 11/11/2011 04:19, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : > >> Il 10/11/2011 17:41, [email protected] ha scritto: >> >>> Hi, >>> Sorry for cross-posting on several lists, but we are in the process of >>> taking some important decisions, on the OS to use... >>> For several years we have mapserver, gdal and Postgis, etc... running >>> on a Windows server. >>> We plan to migrate our GIS tools from the Windows server to SUSE Linux >>> Enterprise Server 11. >>> I heard bad comments on using SLES with mapserver, postgres/postgis, >>> gdal, etc...Taht the installation of these tools was a pain compare to >>> OpenSUSE or UBUNTU. >>> Comments on using and maintaining GIS infrastructure with SLES 11 >>> would be very appreciated. >>> >>> Hi all. >> I think having GIS packages ready and updated is the most important >> thing in choosing a Linux distro. Debian should be the best, as it is >> updated and wdely used and tested. >> All the best. >> >> -- >> Paolo Cavallini >> See:http://www.faunalia.it/pc >> >> >> >> This body part will be downloaded on demand. >> > > -- > > ~$ whoami > Mathieu Basille, Post-Doc > > ~$ locate > Laboratoire d'Écologie Comportementale et de Conservation de la Faune > + Centre d'Étude de la Forêt > Département de Biologie > Université Laval, Québec > > ~$ info > http://ase-research.org/**basille <http://ase-research.org/basille> > > ~$ fortune > ``If you can't win by reason, go for volume.'' > Calvin, by Bill Watterson. > ______________________________**_________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.**refractions.net<[email protected]> > http://postgis.refractions.**net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-**users<http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users> >
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