[Openstreetmap] Getting World Wind working on linux

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Yesterday, I discovered a NASA World Wind client for Linux available
from <URL:http://ww2d.berlios.de/>.  I discovered a request for debian
package by accident, and followed it there.  After struggling a bit, I
finally got it running today.

Here is a short howto for getting the java version of world wind
working on linux.  It is slightly based on
<URL:http://ww2d.berlios.de/?Documentation:Installation>.

 1) download the JOGL and ww2d packages:

      wget http://download.berlios.de/ww2d/ww2d-0.99.86.zip
      wget http://download.berlios.de/ww2d/JOGL-Inst.jar

 2) unpack JOGL into separate directory (running the jar do not work,
    as it assume root access and tries to copy files into locations
    where I do not want to write new files).

      (mkdir JOGL-Inst && cd JOGL-Inst && jar -x < ../JOGL-Inst.jar)

 3) unpack the ww2d zip file

      unzip ww2d-0.99.86.zip

 4) make the jogl files available in this new directory.  This is the
    important trick to work around broken JOGL installer.

      (cd ww2d-0.99.86 && ln ../JOGL-Inst/jogl.jar .)
      (cd ww2d-0.99.86 && ln ../JOGL-Inst/libjogl.so .)

 5) run the program in the ww2d... directory while making sure the
    dynamic linker find the libjogl.so file.

      cd LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` java -jar WW2D.jar

After these steps, I got a nice window with a map of the earth, and I
can zoom in to different areas of the world using Alt-up and
Alt-down. :)