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First, ensure you have some base packages installed on your Ubuntu system:

• If you don't want to use the CD as a source for files, comment out the CDROM line (2nd or 3rd line) in /etc/apt/sources
• Install latest updates from the repository

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  

• Install various programs of interest

   sudo aptitude install ssh apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork  \
        python-psycopg2 build-essential bison flex unzip \
        libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev libgd2-xpm libxml2-dev libpam-ocaml-dev \
        libgd2-xpm-dev libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libagg-dev python-dev  \
        doxygen aptitude install libapache2-mod-wsgi libxslt-dev  \
        libapache2-mod-python python-setuptools ipython  \
        subversion python-setuptools screen vim
   
  

Next, we'll install the GIS stack (mostly from source)

• All tarballs and packages to be located in: usr/local/src/package_name
• Proj.4 (Reprojection libraries)

  cd /usr/local/src
  sudo wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
  sudo wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
  sudo tar -xzvf proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
  cd proj-4.7.0
  cd nad/
  #ls
  cp ../../proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip .
  unzip proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
  cd ..
  sudo ./configure
  sudo make
  sudo make install
  

• PostgreSQL v8.3
  • Install postgres

    sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.4  postgresql-server-dev-8.4
    

  • Or, install postgres from source (not needed, or recommended unless you have a good reason)

• modify /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf so you can log in as postgres w/o a password locally
  • near the end, change the local METHOD to "trust" from "ident sameuser". Note this has negative security implications, especially if you ever plan to have folks other than yourself be logged into this machine.

• GEOS (Geometry Engine).

  cd /usr/local/src
  sudo wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.2.2.tar.bz2
  sudo tar -xjvf geos-3.2.2.tar.bz2
  cd geos-3.2.2
  sudo ./configure
  sudo make
  sudo make install
  

• GDAL/OGR (base Raster and Vector libraries)

  cd /usr/local/src
  sudo wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.2.tar.gz
  sudo tar -xzf gdal-1.7.2.tar.gz
  cd gdal-1.7.2
  sudo ./configure  --with-geos --with-python
  sudo make ogr-all
  sudo make install 
  

• PostGIS (spatial extensions for postgres)
  • edit /etc/ld.so.conf to contain /usr/local/lib. Example file:

    include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
    /usr/local/lib
    

  • run ldconfig to update, and then install postgis:

    sudo ldconfig
    cd /usr/local/src
    sudo wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.5.1.tar.gz
    sudo tar -xzvf postgis-1.5.1.tar.gz
    cd postgis-1.5.1
    sudo ./configure 
    sudo make
    sudo make install
    

  • OPTIONAL: Create a gis enabled database

    #create database called postgis
    createdb -U postgres postgis
    createlang -U postgres plpgsql postgis
    
    psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql -d postgis -U postgres
    psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql -d postgis -U postgres
    
    

• Mapserver
  • configure and make

    cd /usr/local/src
    sudo wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-5.6.3.tar.gz
    sudo tar -xzf mapserver-5.6.3.tar.gz
    cd mapserver-5.6.3
    sudo ./configure --with-ogr --with-gdal --with-httpd=/usr/sbin/apache2 --with-wms --with-wfsclient --with-wmsclient --with-curl-config --with-proj --with-tiff --with-gd --with-jpeg --with-agg --with-freetype --without-pdf --with-wcs --with-postgis 
    sudo make
    
    

  • test mapserv executable

    /usr/local/src//mapserver-5.6.3/mapserv -v
    

  • copy mapserv executable to the default cgi-bin to make it web-accessible

    sudo cp /usr/local/src/mapserver-5.6.3/mapserv /usr/lib/cgi-bin
    

• GeoDjango trunk

  cd /usr/local/src
  svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django_trunk
  cd /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/src/django_trunk/django/ django
  

• Misc

  easy_install django-profiles django-registration