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Installing Mapnik on an Ubuntu 8.04 Slice

Ken-ichi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:40:18 +0000

Just installed Mapnik on the iNat slice at Slicehost, which runs Ubuntu Hardy (8.04). Since the process was not exactly trivial, here’s what I ended up doing:

# Get up to date and install deps
# Docs: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/UbuntuInstallationOld
aptitude update
aptitude install binutils cpp-3.3 g++-3.3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-filesystem1.34.1 libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-iostreams1.34.1 libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.34.1 libboost-python-dev libboost-python1.34.1 libboost-regex-dev libboost-regex1.34.1 libboost-serialization-dev libboost-serialization1.34.1 libboost-thread-dev libboost-thread1.34.1 libicu-dev libicu38 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev python2.5-dev
aptitude install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libltdl3 libltdl3-dev libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libtiff4 libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 python-imaging python-imaging-dbg proj
aptitude install libcairo2 libcairo2-dev python-cairo python-cairo-dev libcairomm-1.0-1 libcairomm-1.0-dev libglib2.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libpixman-1-dev libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra
aptitude install libgdal-dev python2.5-gdal
aptitude install libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev libxml2
easy_install jonpy
easy_install lxml
 
# Configure and instlall mapnik from source
# Docs: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/UsingScons
python scons/scons.py configure INPUT_PLUGINS=shape,gdal,ogr,sqlite
python scons/scons.py
python scons/scons.py install
 
# Make sure ld knows where to find the new libs
# Thanks to http://www.drazzib.com/projets:openstreetmap:postgis_mapnik_tile_server
echo "/usr/local/lib64" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf
ldconfig

My main mistake was thinking that the python-mapnik package in Aptitude was going to cut mustard. Didn’t even include OGR support! Luckily the most recent Mapnik release (0.6.1) built just fine. Still easier that installing under OS X.

Moving a Rails app to Ruby Enterprise Edition

Ken-ichi — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:03:25 +0000

I just put iNaturalist.org on Ruby Enterprise Edition. Unfortunately, I’m really not seeing any savings in memory consumption, aside from the Passenger ApplicationSpawner taking up a few less MB. Kind of dissapointed.

However, installing REE on my Mac was slightly less trivial than I was led to believe. Suffice it to say the REE installer assumes you have dependent libs in /usr or /usr/local, and if you don’t, there aren’t any flags you can pass in to change that. However, you can set ENV vars, so I was able to get the installer to work like this:

export CC=gcc && export CXX=g++ && ./installer

Basically, the REE installer checks deps by using Ruby to write and compile a C file, but it’s default path to gcc was not the same as the gcc I normally use.

After that, I had to make sure all my gems were in place. I ended up installing rails, Hpricot, and ruby-debug (the latter 2 require compiled C) using REE’s own copy of rubygems, and I made sure the rest of our gems were vendorized. REE’s rubygems is just like normal:

/path/to/ree/bin/gem install rails ruby-debug hpricot

If you run into problems, make sure you’re tailing Apache’s error log and not just the Rails log, b/c that’s where Passenger will moan about its problems.

As I said, memory gains seem non-existent on our Ubuntu production machine, which is weird because I saw a 25% reduction in memory usage on my Macbook.

My Ubuntu Cheat Sheet

Ken-ichi — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:45:24 +0000

Looks like I’m maintaining an Ubuntu server these days…

Package Management

# Finding Installed Dependent Packages
apt-cache rdepends --installed packageX
 
# Installing Individual .deb Packages
sudo dpkg -i package_file.deb
 
# Ubuntu version info
cat /etc/lsb-release

Trust not to aptitude…

Sometimes aptitude does silly things, like install X11 when all you wanted was ImageMagick. Try apt-get as well to see if it doesn’t have a different set of deps (this is true of ImageMagick as of December 2008).