[FWTools] Installation of FWTools on Ubuntu (install.sh)

[Roald de Wit]

Hi,

That version of FWTools is very old (2008). AFAICT it is not being 
developed anymore. You're probably better off using UbuntuGis [1]. You 
can easily add their Personal Package Archive (PPA) to your system by 
following the link to either the stable [2] or unstable [3] repository 
(or both) and then following the instructions in the section "Adding 
this PPA to your system". When there are updates, they will 
automatically show up in your update manager, making sure you are always 
up to date!

Regards, Roald

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS
[2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ppa/
[3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable

On 31/10/10 01:27, Tomislav Hengl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am novel to Ubuntu. I have tried to install FWTools under Linux
> [http://home.gdal.org/fwtools/FWTools-linux-2.0.6.tar.gz] and am facing
> some problems. First, I discovered that the "./install.sh" needs to be
> fixed so it runs on my machine:
>
> "python -O /usr/lib/python2.6/compileall.py pymod /usr/lib/python2.6 bin
> tools"
>
> Second, after I run ./install.sh, I get an error message:
>
> ------
> Listing pymod ...
> Compiling pymod/filedlg.py ...
> SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('pymod/filedlg.py', 302, 26, '
> self.set_policy(as=gtk.FALSE, ag=gtk.FALSE, autos=gtk.TRUE)\n'))
> ...
> Listing bin ...
> Listing tools ...
> ------
>
> but then rest runs through. Finally, I am getting an error message when
> trying to add the FWTools path to:
>
> ------
> thengl at geo:~$ pico .bash_profile
> thengl at geo:~$ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/FWTools/bin_safe
> thengl at geo:~$ ls
> eudem5km.tif
> thengl at geo:~$ gdalinfo eudem5km.tif
> /home/FWTools/bin_safe/gdalinfo: 9: /home/FWTools/bin/gdalinfo: not found
> thengl at geo:~$ cd /home/FWTools/bin
> thengl at geo:/home/FWTools/bin$ file gdalinfo
> gdalinfo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, not stripped
> ------
>
> It seems that I did manage to install FWTools, but I have problems
> pointing to the FWtools exe files.
>
> Thanx,
>
> -- T. Hengl Url: http://www.wewur.wur.nl/popups/vcard.aspx?id=HENGL001
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