[ gpsdrive ] installing on Ubuntu

[David Bannon]

Thanks Ross, maybe I'll give it a try. Did so some months ago following 
what looked like an earlier version and it was certainly not easy. Now, 
I was installing onto kubuntu then and lots of the undocumented problems 
seemed to relate to things Gnome may put there. I started keeping a list 
of the problems but soon gave up! But did get it working.

It really is a very complicated install. Fine for people actively 
working on the project (thanks Guys !) but maybe too much for people 
like me who would like a play with GPSDrive occasionally. My laptop is a 
work tool 99% of its time. For example, I don't really want postgres 
installed and running by default just to get OSM. OSM is cool but does 
not show the map content I want to see. The earlier versions of GPSDrive 
that needed only PNG images, easily made from ecw maps was great but a 
bit buggy.

Anyway, thanks for your time, please don't see my comments as 
complaints, far from it. Its important the developers of something as 
great as GPSDrive get some feedback from "ordinary users" as well as 
close team members.

And it is a great project !

David


Ross Scanlon wrote:
> Use the install instructions for Ubuntu in the sourceforge wiki instead.
> 
> Cheers
> Ross
> 
> 
>> Hi Folks, just tried to install the SVN version as per
>> http://www.gpsdrive.de/development/debian.shtml onto a reasonably clean
>> ubuntu 8.10 but get an error from apt saying it needs libgeos.
>>
>> Now, I did have libgeos-c1, libgeos-3.0.0 and added libgeos.dev but
>> install refuses to proceed. All V. 3.0.0-5
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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