[OSM-talk] osmosis pbf issues

[Toby Murray]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to process pbf files without luck in osmosis. When i run:
> osmosis --read-pbf india.osm.pbf --write-xml india.osm
> osmosis quits with:
> SEVERE: Execution aborted.
> org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: Task type read-pbf
> doesn't exist.
>
> I installed osmosis 0.39 using 'apt-get intall osmosis'

You probably got 0.34 since this is what is in the Ubuntu repository
and would explain why it says the read-pbf task doesn't exist. PBF
support didn't exist until 0.37.

Uninstall the one you got from apt and try again using the current 0.40.

Toby