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| author | Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> | 2016-04-10 14:06:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2016-04-11 03:23:29 -0400 |
| commit | cbe211fda926cee23bde9bbb59f364a540f5a155 (patch) | |
| tree | c360581fa50d530fbe5f8287cbe4d3afb889235e /INSTALL | |
| parent | 80f65f492805ab78bfac5f854a5dd4e1218b23aa (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-cbe211fda926cee23bde9bbb59f364a540f5a155.tar.gz | |
Minor fixes to INSTALL and build.txt.
Aside from some minor corrections and some additional info in
build.txt, this removes Python 3 from the Python alternatives in the
"generic build" section, since scons doesn't currently work with
Python 3. It's still included as a runtime possibility.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ running Fedora Core, Ubuntu, or stock Debian you can skip this step, as the stock configuration has the right properties. gpsd requires two things: (1) that GPS devices have group read and -write enabled, and (2) all of them are have the same group ID as a +write enabled, and (2) all of them have the same group ID as a prototypical device, typically /dev/ttyS0 under Linux or /dev/tty00 under *BSD. It does not actually matter what the owning group is, as gpsd will look this up on startup. Alternatively, (3), you can set a @@ -87,16 +87,16 @@ A minimum build of GPSD can run pretty close to the metal; all it absolutely needs is the C runtime support. The test clients and various additional features have additional prerequisites: -|================================================================================ +|=============================================================================== |pthreads library | support for PPS timekeeping on serial GPSes |DBUS | gpsd will issue DBUS notifications |ncurses | a test client and the GPS monitor depend on this |libtinfo5 | shared low-level terminfo library (see below) |libusb-1.0.x or later | better USB device discovery |Qt + qmake | libQgpsmm depends on this -|python2.x(x>=6) or 3.y(y>=3) | required for various clients and utilities +|python2.x(x>=6) or 3.y(y>=2) | required for various clients and utilities |python-GI bindings | the test clients xgps and xgpsspeed, need this -|================================================================================ +|=============================================================================== Some ncurses packages contain the terminfo library; some break it out separately as libtinfo5 or libtinfo. @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41 gpsd will build, install and run on the Rasberry Pi (RasPi) and Pi 2 using Debian jessie. Other distributions based on Debian (raspbian, etc) will work fine as well. The gpsd -package in Debian Wheezy is known to be flakey, be sure to update to a +package in Debian Wheezy is known to be flaky, be sure to update to a new version of gpsd from source. === Raspbian === |