FOSS4G Toolkit for Mandriva 2008

New FOSS4G Toolkit for Mandriva 2008 is released.

About the Mandriva 2008 FOSS4G Toolkit CD
We have been packing some of the software in the OSGeo stack since the Mandrake (now Mandriva) Linux 10.0 distribution. We call our packaged CD as FOSS4G Toolkit CD.

The RPM have been built by obtaining SOURCE RPM from various sources. We tested SOURCE RPM, modified the RPM SPEC files when necessary and rebuilt RPM packages on our local machine.

This page contains information about the FOSS4G Toolkit for Mandriva Linux 2008 distribution that has been released in October 2007. We have mainly used the SOURCE RPM of OSGeo Software stack available in the Mandrake/official/current/SRPMS/contrib/release/ directory available at the Mandriva Linux 2008 FTP mirror and our experience in making the Mandriva Linux 2006 FOSS4G CD Toolkit to test, modify the SPEC files when necessary and rebuild RPM packages for Mandriva Linux 2008 on our local machine.

What Mandriva 2008 FOSS4G Toolkit CD Contains

 * Mapserver 5.0.2
 * GRASS 6.2.3
 * QGIS 0.9.1
 * GDAL 1.5.0
 * GDAL-GRASS 1.4.3
 * PROJ 4.6.0
 * PostGIS 1.3.1
 * GEOS 3.0.0

Download

 * 7th Release 2008/2/12 Upgrade GDAL 1.5.0, Mapserver 5.0.2, GEOS 3.0.0, QGIS 0.9.1 , Proj 4.6.0
 * RPMS and Necessary libs URL: http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4gtk/foss4gtk2008.tar.gz
 * Only RPMS URL:http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4gtk/RPMS/
 * SRPMS URL: http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4gtk/foss4g_srpms.tar.gz
 * Sixth Release 2007/12/15 Upgrade to GDAL 1.4.4
 * Fourth Release 2007/11/16 HDF4 support for Gdal added and additional added for proj4
 * Fifth Release 2007/12/05 Upgrade to GRASS 6.2.3 and HDF file bug fix
 * Third Release 2007/11/14 gdal-1.4.3 added
 * Second Release 2007/10/30 qgis-0.9.0 added
 * First Release 2007/10/26

Installation
After installing Mandriva Linux 2008, login as root and execute following commands.


 * 1) tar -xzvf foss4gtk2008.tar.gz
 * 2) cd foss4gtk
 * 3) urpmi *.rpm (need root privilege)

Modified RPM SPEC for OSGeo Software below

 * Mapserver 5.0.2
 * GRASS 6.2.3
 * QGIS 0.9.1
 * GDAL 1.5.0
 * GDAL-GRASS 1.4.3
 * PROJ 4.6.0
 * PostGIS 1.3.1
 * GEOS 3.0.0

Bug Report and some fixes

 * fix GML not supported in GDAL.This was not included in the original Mandriva Contrib RPM
 * fix d.rast.leg error in GRASS 6.2.2 RPM. This was not working in the original Mandriva Contrib RPM
 * fix php and python API. This was not included in the original Mandriva 2008 Contrib RPM.
 * fix HDF support for gdal [removing hdf5 and compile with HDF4 --with-hdf4]
 * not fixed in GRASS-6.2.2 gem conflict for GRASS-6.2.2 and RubyGems
 * fixed in GRASS-6.3.x GRASS gem was renamed to gem6 in GRASS 6.3.x (communication from Markus Neteler)
 * not fixed PHP Mapscript with non-CGI environment conflict with some function such as OWSRequestobj example

Special Note

 * Enable CGI-Environment for PHP mapscript

Additional Packages for RPM Build

 * PROJ-4.6.0
 * Package names go here
 * GDAL-1.5.0
 * Package names go here
 * PostGIS 1.3.1
 * Package names go here
 * GRASS-6.2.3
 * Package names go here
 * GDAL-GRASS 1.4.3
 * Package names go here
 * QGIS 0.9.1
 * Package names go here
 * Mapserver 5.0.2
 * Package names go here

Useful link

 * RPM source

Packagers and Tester

 * Venkatesh Raghavan
 * Sarawut Ninsawat
 * Saroj Akoijam
 * Pham Thi Mai Thy
 * Susumu Nonogaki
 * Gérald Fenoy