Hello,
my goal is to set up my own server but unfortunately I was not able to finish the installation process.
First I tried the following instructions on Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh install on a virtual machine with Virtualbox):
http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server
The installation failed at the PostgreSQL Installation. The workarounds in the comments did not word.
After that I tried it on Ubuntu 9.04 (fresh install on a virtual machine with Virtualbox):
http://codebrainz.ca/index.php/2009/09/27/installing-mapnik-and-friends-on-ubuntu-904/
Here the installation failed while executing a python script. A package called “Boost” was required with version 1.41 or later. According to the script that installed the depenencies I had version 1.35. I was not able to get 1.41 on the system (I found the boost homepage with V1.41 but I was not able to deinstall 1.35 and install 1.41; I am not very experienced with Linux)
The instructions at mapnik.org did not work either:
http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/UbuntuInstallation
The package libboost1.40 could not be found.
Now my question is:
Is there any package for mapnik available with all its dependencies? It does not need to have all the newest versions, it just has to be working.
Or is it possible to manually install Boost 1.41 and modify the installation scripts?