To Install

FGS requires bash. Please do the following steps from bash to install the base packages, and the latest mapserver built from SVN:

wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/fgs-msx/fgs-msx-5.0a-linux-i386.bin
sh fgs-msx-5.0a-linux-i386.bin
(answer prompts ... defaults are often ok)
cd fgs (or wherever you put the fgs install)
. setenv.sh 
fgs install mapserver-base:svn_trunk http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/fgs-msx
fgs install mapserver-php:svn_trunk http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/fgs-msx

To include python mapscript support also do:

fgs install python_mapscript-module:svn_trunk 

To verify install try "shp2img -v" and visiting http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/fgs and http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv.

To Upgrade

To upgrade an install to the latest mapserver, do the following steps:

fgs force-install mapserver-base:svn_trunk 
fgs force-install mapserver-php:svn_trunk
fgs force-install python_mapscript-module:svn_trunk

To Run

In order to run the software in the fgs mapserver 5 tree, you will need to source the setenv.sh script in the direct like this:

cd ~/fgs
. setenv.sh

You may also need to start the custom apache:

fgs start

More about FGS

The FGS (FOSS GIS Suite) packaging system is described more fully at http://www.maptools.org/fgs

Packages

MapServer version info looks like this:

MapServer version 5.0.0-beta4 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT 
SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS
INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

Chameleon is also available for testing. Use: fgs install chameleon-base:2.2

Builds

The preparation environment lives in /home/frankw/fgs-dev-msx on download.osgeo.org.