OpenCPN on CentOS 6.4 and 6.5

[haydude]

Hello,

I am trying to install OpenCPN on CentOS 6.5 and it fails with the following error:

error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) is needed by opencpn-3.2.2-1.x86_64
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit) is needed by opencpn-3.2.2-1.x86_64
libtinyxml.so.0()(64bit) is needed by opencpn-3.2.2-1.x86_64
libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.3.3)(64bit) is needed by opencpn-3.2.2-1.x86_64

The libraries indicated do not exist for CentOS 6.5. Is it possible to find a build working with it?

I tried as well to recompile from scratch and then create the rpm package. Compilation is OK, but then "make package" fails to create the rpm.

And no, I will not install just with "make install" I do not use this method on my systems because it then makes it impossible to clean up old packages.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[cagney]

I'm not into RedHat anymore. I stopped at about Fedora 3.....
I think that SetDart is da mon.
Meanwhile, just searching around a bit should make it possible to get "make package" to produce an rpm.
Some help is available through

$cmake --help-module CPackRPM

Thomas

[SethDart]

Our RPMs are built for Fedora and doen't seems to be compatible as-is with CentOS.

I just built one on CentOS 6.5 x86_64

Here's the receipe:

1/ You must install EPEL repo for cmake 2.8.12 (cmake 2.6.x from centos is way outdated. I guess that's the reason for your problem)

# yum install http://mir01.syntis.net/epel/6/i386/...6-8.noarch.rpm
# yum install cmake28 portaudio-devel tinyxml-devel

2/ Then you can follow with normal installation procedure as described (note the use of cmake28 instead of cmake below)

$ cmake28 -DPREFIX=/usr ../
$ make
$ make package

I just uploaded latest beta built with a CentOS 6.5 x86_64 VM
http://je.onfray.fr/dl/opencpn_3.3.1...el6.x86_64.rpm

I'll try to create a repo for CentOS if you're interested.

[SethDart]

The EPEL repo is ready.

You can install it with:
yum install http://je.onfray.fr/repo/epel/6/x86_...el6.noarch.rpm

To install opencpn, run:
yum install opencpn

If you want to test latest beta:
yum --enablerepo=jeo-testing install opencpn

To stay updated with latest beta, you should set enabled=1 in section [jeo-testing] in /etc/yum.repo.d/jeo-epel.repo

Enjoy!

[haydude]

Originally Posted by SethDart

Our RPMs are built for Fedora and doen't seems to be compatible as-is with CentOS.

I just built one on CentOS 6.5 x86_64

Here's the receipe:

1/ You must install EPEL repo for cmake 2.8.12 (cmake 2.6.x from centos is way outdated. I guess that's the reason for your problem)

# yum install http://mir01.syntis.net/epel/6/i386/...6-8.noarch.rpm
# yum install cmake28 portaudio-devel tinyxml-devel

2/ Then you can follow with normal installation procedure as described (note the use of cmake28 instead of cmake below)

$ cmake28 -DPREFIX=/usr ../
$ make
$ make package

I just uploaded latest beta built with a CentOS 6.5 x86_64 VM
http://je.onfray.fr/dl/opencpn_3.3.1...el6.x86_64.rpm

I'll try to create a repo for CentOS if you're interested.

I have stopped using Fedora a while ago because just a few months after the next release they stop providing patches for the previous release you are on and thus the only way to upgrade is to do a fresh re-install. CentOS is slightly behind, but at least I never have to re-install because there is always an upgrade path.

Thank you for your help and for providing the package, very much appreciated.

[SethDart]

Originally Posted by haydude

I have stopped using Fedora a while ago because just a few months after the next release they stop providing patches for the previous release you are on and thus the only way to upgrade is to do a fresh re-install. CentOS is slightly behind, but at least I never have to re-install because there is always an upgrade path.

Just for the sake of accuracy, Fedora releases are updated for 13 month or so.
Fedora 20 was released a few weeks ago and Fedora 18 will be updated until the end of january (or is it early february, I don't remember)

And, by the way, they now have a great tool to update releases, it's named fedup (as in FEDora UPgrade) and it works like a charm, really. Around Fedora 15, there was another tool, named preupgrade, but that one was not a success, quickly replaced by this fedup that does the job just right. Upgrading from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 is as simple as running "fedup --network 20", reboot and you're done!

I don't know if you tried using my repo to install opencpn but I've just updated the -testing repo to the just released opencpn 3.3.1328 beta. You can try it now.