GIS Packages

bosewicht · 2005-04-08 22:14:10

I was just curious if anyone was using any GIS server packages on their Arch Arch box. I am looking to install one, unsure which but possibly mapserver, and was curious if anyone has done this yet or built any packages.

Father · 2005-04-09 06:32:41

this shouldve been posted under "Networking, Server, and Protection"

this forums is for package requests and new package builds... as the name suggests

dtw · 2005-04-09 09:57:57

disagree with you there, Father, it's simply a request for GIS software pkgs for Arch

i.e. it is a pkg request

in answer to the question - i thought about making some!

Father · 2005-04-09 11:19:55

ahh ok.. my bad.. just the way it was phrased..
sorry.. ahhhhhh....... carry on!

bosewicht · 2005-04-13 00:46:00

yes, maybe I could have phrased that a little better, regardless, I took a look at mapserver and may try to give it a go. It doesn't seem to be too complicated, but a lot of optional items to install. Here are the Compilation and Installation instructions.
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc40/unix … howto.html

dibblethewrecker which pkgs have you been looking at?

iBertus · 2005-04-13 13:09:23

I'm interested in GIS also but thus far haven't had time to put together any packages for Arch. I'll post back if I manage to throw something together. Anyone else already done this?

dtw · 2005-05-29 04:56:50

I am about to start putting together a GIS pkg set for Arch with a view to making an Archie GIS livecd.

If anyone would like to contribute PKGBUILDS i'd very grateful - a lot of the apps are hard to pkg tho!

PLEASE POST HERE BEFORE STARTING TO BUILD SOMETHING TO AVOID REPLICATION!

I am working on GRASS at the moment as that seems a good start!

I will put together a list of apps i think we could use based on those of other livecd GIS distros.

I'll also host the pkgs in a repo for the time being

iBertus · 2005-05-29 05:00:37

Good luck with GRASS! It seems like a beast to package all the crap it depends on.

dtw · 2005-05-29 05:03:18

cheers - i have no deps for it installed so that is prolly why it won't build! knew it wouldn't be easy!

dtw · 2005-05-30 07:46:00

This is the link to the page on user-contributions

I have raided the homepages of all the GIS cds i could find and compiled a list of pkgs - these are just the advertised pkgs, I dunno about deps.

They are all sorts - not just GIS - but i figured i would search the forums for all of the and the build the ones i don't find - gives me something to do

I added a folder on my server, the list of apps is there as is a list of sources

iBertus · 2005-05-30 18:45:32

Nice! I'll start trying to help put together any packages I can.

Also, Octave is already in extra.

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OKAY, I just got PROJ.4 to compile and package. Now, I'm off to work on libgeotiff, gdal and GRASS.

iBertus · 2005-05-30 20:40:23

So now I've got libgeotiff and PROJ.4 packaged but still having trouble with GDAL. I'll have to do some more research before trying to package it again. Hope I'm not doing anything that someone else already has...

Anyway, off to dinner with the g/f.

dtw · 2005-05-31 05:37:04

LOL - i said post before you did them!

I already have those two! Still we can compare - i expect to have gdal working soon too.

This is my list of dones or almost dones:

dgpsip gdal gdal_grass gen2shp gmt grass libgeotiff netcdf proj qgis thuban pysqlite wxwindows cfitsio geos

This is my list of todo's:

mapdesk postgis

This is a list of ones I have left for now as I would need to do lots more reading and get loads of web deps e.g APACHE

bbbike drawmap g3dgmv gpsman INTERLIS (igcheck, ili2c, umleditor) igmt jump tclgeomap terraview tkgeomap tkgm_util mapit maplab mapserver

I'll keep you very informed with what happens with the others then we can go from there

Sorry to be tackling so many but there are a lot of cross deps

iBertus · 2005-05-31 10:14:49

No problem, I was just trying to figure out what would be a good starting point. BTW, great work so far!

I'm not going to be anywhere near my computer today, so may not be as much help as I thought I could be...

dtw · 2005-06-01 01:38:25

No probs - i def have the bones going - they might need some recompiles and the PKGBUILDS need completing - I am just going for getting stuff built and working at the moment.

These are in the bag:
grass
mapdesk
postgis
pysqlite
qgis
cfitsio
dgpsip
gdal
gen2shp
geos
libgeotiff
netcdf
proj
thuban

I added the PKGBUILDS for the ones i tried and failed to my server - along with the list of sources.

There will also be a repo of the pkgs i have built so far up by the end of today

[gis]
Server = http://dtw.jiwe.org/share/pkgs/gis

dtw · 2005-06-01 05:48:09

ok!

the stuff i have done is in the repo as promised.

i built gdal, then built grass against it and then rebuild gdal against grass (nice dep that) but for some reason, even tho I told gdal exactly where grass was and it built fine, gdal-info can;t find grass libs. Weird.

All my other bits are in the gis folder linked above - NOT the gis repo

I am about to move back to the UK from the Philippines so I won;t be doing anymore till then I think - but at least it is a start!

iBertus · 2005-06-02 19:30:37

Should both mysql and postgre be required for some of the packages?

dtw · 2005-06-03 04:15:33

I think so cos they can use either and are built with support for both druing configure - i maybe wrong. these packages are abit outside my usual realm to be honest.

pacman and makepkg fall down a bit here - i mean you only really want mysql or postgre not both but unless you know that you have to be told you need both i think so they are deps - it's a grey area i think

sorry if this make little sense - i am exhausted

tahnks for look it all over

dtw · 2005-06-12 12:34:30

hello bert

I downloaded and burned the gis-knoppix cd to see how they had installed grass, as I had nothing to go by. It seems to fit well in /usr/lib so it has gone in there now. I have successfully built gdal against it and gdal runs properly now.

Having succesfuly worked out where to install grass I am now building qgis against it. Have had to patch some errors but it is going ok

Try the new pkgs in the repo - i need to work on some data set pkgs too

dtw · 2005-06-12 14:55:53

i have now also successfully built qgis and postgis - they are on the server.

As i have now got everything to build correctly (i.e. I know it can be done) i'll start prettying up the PKGBUILDs and finding the data which I'll also pkg. Then I'll try and test the stuff. Stage 1 is definitely complete tho!

iBertus · 2005-06-12 16:35:13

Great work! I'll give you a hand in testing these ASAP.

dtw · 2005-06-12 17:10:48

just had to rebuild qgis against postgis - it takes ages! it better be worth it!

iBertus · 2005-06-13 01:04:51

qgis requires qt libraries to run but these are not listed in depends.

all important grass scripts are now in /usr/lib/grass-6.0.0/scripts...

getting this error message when trying to run qgis.. seems it can't find the GRASS libs.

qgis: error while loading shared libraries: libgrass_I.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

GRASS starts up in both text and GUI modes.

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okay, so I get massive link errors when trying to build qgis. seems that gdal needs sqlite and the whole thing needs one other library I haven't traced down yet.

 -lnsl -lssl -lcrypto -lpq /usr/lib/libgeos.so /usr/lib/libstdc++.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnetcdf
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [qgis] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/local/gis/qgis/src/qgis-0.6.0/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/local/gis/qgis/src/qgis-0.6.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/local/gis/qgis/src/qgis-0.6.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/local/gis/qgis/src/qgis-0.6.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

dtw · 2005-06-13 08:35:03

ok - i know why the grass lib thing is i have fixed that

netcdf? is that not in the qgis deps - i'll triple check it today - sorry, trying to do too much at once!

dtw · 2005-06-13 14:28:47

sorry bertus

i didn't use namcap on them yet as i was relying on their documentation - which obviously isn't enough. namcaping them all now

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