[OSM-dev] Mapnik on Debian Sarge?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > Anyone managed to get Mapnik installed on Debian Sarge?
> > I'm thinking of doing a custom Mapnik render for Freemap whch would be 
> > rendered in a style similar to OS Landranger/Explorer, showing contours 
> > derived from SRTM, but my Bytemark VM is running sarge.
> 
> "Can't be done" -- you'll need to install libboost 1.33 to run mapnik
> out of SVN, which isn't in sarge. It also doesn't compile cleanly for me
> even after that -- see my previous email on adding -pthreads to the
> scons setup -- but that might just be me.
> 
> If you can install libboost 1.33 libs, it should work. That's all I
> remember having to do. 

I should have checked earlier; the boost 1.33 libs are available from
backports.org:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_Map#For_Debian_sarge

Haven't tested a build of mapnik with this yet but it looks plausible.

Cheers,

Dominic.

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