Installing Mapnik on Ubuntu 7.10

Published on April 19, 2008

I have managed to install mapnik 0.4, 0.5, 0.5.1 and various SVN releases in-between on Ubuntu. While this isn't in itself exciting, I think I manage to stumble at every installation. I typically forget to add the flags when building, so, to prevent myself from stumbling again, I'm going to write them out here.

Build mapnik
$ python scons/scons.py PYTHON=/usr/bin/python \ 

PGSQL_INCLUDES=/usr/include/postgresql \

PGSQL_LIBS=/usr/lib/postgresql BOOST_INCLUDES=/usr/include/boost BOOST_LIBS=/usr/lib


Then install it 
$ sudo python scons/scons.py install PYTHON=/usr/bin/python \ 

PGSQL_INCLUDES=/usr/include/postgresql \

PGSQL_LIBS=/usr/lib/postgresql BOOST_INCLUDES=/usr/include/boost BOOST_LIBS=/usr/lib

Then proceed as normal.



Tagged As: Python | GIS | Open Street Maps
Apr 19 2008
11:51 a.m.
#1

Thank you for this. Been thinking about installing Mapnik and this will help a lot.

Apr 19 2008
6:48 p.m. australia
#2

No problem Matt, I'll possibly post some more details about installing mapnik+postgis+mod_tile on an Ubuntu box, but I'll have to finish dong it first:)

Apr 22 2008
11:40 a.m. ireland
#3

Hi Kev,

I'm the designbuildtestrepeat.wordpress.com guy. I'm glad to see that you are working on Mapnik (and OSM?). I've just committed to giving a talk next month on the use of AWS for map creation so I need to bone up on all that stuff again. It's good to have another resource to refer to

Regards

Diarmuid

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