[Xastir] Setup.

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Mon Jan 19 14:40:54 EST 2004


Likely I can help w/ RedHat...

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ahh, got it.  I'm not that familiar with SuSE, but we can work with it.
> 
> 
> I just got rid of one very old RedHat system, so I'm down to just
> SuSE and Slackware now.  I can certainly help with SuSE.  I have
> SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0 on various systems.
> 
> 
> 
>>If you hve tiff-3.5.7, you'll have to use libgeotiff < 1.2.x.  This is
>>due to the APIs in libtiff.  I highly recommend you install at least
>>proj, geotiff, and shapelib.  The others are nice, but if you've got
>>these (and tiff of course) you are setup for the vast majority of the
>>maps available.
> 
> 
> If he's not in the U.S., he may not have much of a need for the
> libgeotiff stuff anyway.  There may not be any maps available for
> the area.
> 
> I'd suggest Shapelib and ImageMagick only.  Skip the libproj/
> libgeotiff/ libgdal stuff for now unless specific maps that those
> libraries support are needed.
> 
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