InstallationRequirements

Table of Contents System-Specific Prerequisites for !OpenBlock Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) Mac OS X Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

System-Specific Prerequisites for !OpenBlock

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This page just lists prerequisites. For actual installation instructions, see http://openblockproject.org/docs/

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

If you want to use global precompiled packages of python-gdal, lxml, shapely, and PIL:

Or if you prefer to build them from source, you'll need:

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)

If you want to use global precompiled packages of python-gdal, lxml, shapely, and PIL:

Or if you prefer to build them from source, you'll need:

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)

If you want to use global precompiled packages of python-gdal, lxml, shapely, and PIL:

Or if you prefer to build them from source, you'll need:

Mac OS X

Using Homebrew

Using MacPorts:

Then you need to set up postgresql:

• create the directory /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb/

• set up the postgres user as per the directions at

• run `sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83`

• init the database by running `sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/

• add /opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/ to your $PATH

• don't forget to start up postgres! `sudo su postgres -c 'pg_ctl

• optionally you can setup a log file owned by postgres and use the

  -l option of pg_ctl

Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

thanks agabel for submitting the fedora package list!