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| author | Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> | 2015-03-17 13:44:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> | 2015-03-17 13:44:45 -0700 |
| commit | b0d0874a86fa4dd99a9a924daa2136f2ad6b1d01 (patch) | |
| tree | 3452022a309da1322825c84dfa4d6864f9b30709 /INSTALL | |
| parent | e043a8c7936d25af3cf1f28fad5cc1590fd7c2a0 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-b0d0874a86fa4dd99a9a924daa2136f2ad6b1d01.tar.gz | |
Whoops, install instructions are already in build.txt
Seems to me human readable file names should be in UPPERCASE?
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 31 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 24 deletions
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ The Python code in GPSD is actually compatible back to Python 2.4 except that you need either the json library module from 2.6 or the functionally equivalent simplejson backport. -== Install your distributions package(s) == +== Installing gpsd == + +=== Install your distributions package(s) === Up-to-date gpsd packages are generally available for Linux distributions including Debian and derivatives (including Ubuntu and @@ -112,29 +114,10 @@ However, many distributions break up GPSD into separate installable packages for the core daemon and clients; you should search your repository index for anything with gpsd as a prefix. -== Install from source code == - -If an up to date gpsd package is not available for your distribution, -then you can install gpsd from the release tarball. Tarballs are -available from: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gpsd/ - -Before proceeding to build from source ensure that you have removed your -distributions old gpsd files. - -Download the latest tar file. Unpack the file, enter the build -directory, build, test and install gpsd. A sample procedure would be: - --------------------------------------------------------------- -# cd /usr/local/archive -# wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gpsd/gpsd-3.14.tar.gz -# cd /usr/local/src -# tar -xvzf /usr/local/archive/gpsd-3.14.tar.gz -# cd gpsd-3.14 -# scons --clean && scons --config=force && scons check && scons install --------------------------------------------------------------- +=== Install from source code === -You should now have a clean installation of gpsd from source. The executable -files have been installed in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin. +Directions for installing from source are in the file build.txt found +in the source distribution. == How to test the software == @@ -256,7 +239,7 @@ Git-core is only required to build from a git repository. pps-tools is for testing PPS inputs. The rest of the installation is just as for any other source based -install, as above. +install, as note in the file build.txt. Any USB connected GPS that is known to work with gpsd will work fine on the RasPi. No special instructions apply. |