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

[Tomislav Hengl]

Hi Roald,

Many thanks for the info. In the meanwhile I did find (independently) 
the UbuntuGIS project and installed everything (SAGA, GDAL etc) from there:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu lucid main

*I hope that this "unstable" does not imply that my system will 
regularly crash.

Everything works fine now.

thanks,

T. Hengl

Op 1-11-2010 10:49, Roald de Wit schreef:
> 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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