Re: Debian GIS

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System) 
> package for debian?  I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search GIS', 
> but got a long list of unrelated results.  I've found GRASS on 
> freshmeat, but there doesn't appear to be .deb available.

IMA (www.ima.sp.gov.br) is currently sponsoring the packaging of some GIS
related software, but I hear MapServer and GRASS are f***** painful to
package, and a major mess of dependencies, too.

Send email to gleydson@d.o (debian org) and ask him about the progress, last
time I talked to him about it, he had preliminar packages that require a
full php surgery on the system, and was trying to cleanup upstream mapserver
enough to allow for less intrusive packaging...  That is for MapServer. I
don't know about how much progress the GRASS packaging has seen so far.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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