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- Thuban - a geographic data viewer
+ Thuban - a Geographic Data Viewer
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- Thuban is an interactive viewer for geographic data. It is written in
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- Python using the wxWindows toolkit for portability. It runs on Unix-like
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- systems and on Windows.
+ Thuban is an interactive viewer for geographic data.
+ Python and the wxWidgets framework ensure great portability.
+ Thuban is Free Software and runs on GNU/Linux, Windows
+ and several other operating systems.
  About the Name
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 Thuban is the name of a star in the cons
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 Thuban is the name of a star in the cons
  About 4000 years ago it was the north star.
+ Requirements
+ ------------
+ Thuban requires the following software to be installed:
+   Python     2.2.1    http://www.python.org
+   wxWidgets  2.4.0.4  http://www.wxwidgets.org (formerly known as wxWindows)
+   wxPython   2.4.0.4  http://www.wxpython.org
+   proj       4.4.5    http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/
+   SQLite     2.8.3    http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/
+   PySQLite   0.4.3    http://pysqlite.sourceforge.net
+ The versions given are the lowest versions that are known to work. for
+ proj, sqlite and pysqlite somewhat older versions probably work as well.
+ Note that the wxPython version must be the same as the wxWidgets version
+ (Some wxPython binary packages already contain the right wxWidgets version)
+ Optional software:
+   GDAL       1.1.8  http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/
+      for raster image (geo-tiff) support
+   psycopg    1.0.x  http://initd.org/software/psycopg
+      for postgis connections. Newer version probably also work
  Installation
  ------------
- Building Thuban:
+ Building Thuban (this compiles the extension modules but leaves them in
+ a directory under build/):
     python setup.py build
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 script, run
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 script, run
     python setup.py --help
+ If you build from CVS and want to have translated menus, dialogs etc.
+ you have to build the message catalogs manually before you run setup.py.
+ See po/README for more information.
+ Build Troubleshooting
+ ---------------------
+ When building Thuban, you might have problems because of a missing file
+ wx/wxPython/wxPython.h.  This file is part of wxPython and may be
+ packaged in a separate package.  Unfortunately, on some systems this
+ file is not packaged at all.  On those systems you can try a work-around
+ built into Thuban, by passing the --use-wx-python-swig-hack to the
+ build_ext command.  This can be done on the command line for the build
+ command like this:
+    python setup.py  build_ext --use-wx-python-swig-hack  build
+ You can also use it with the install_local command:
+    python setup.py  build_ext --use-wx-python-swig-hack  install_local
+ Note, that this work-around relies on some wxPython internals and may
+ cease to work at some point.  We tested it with wxPython 2.4 and
+ wxPython 2.5.
  License
  -------
- Thuban is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ Thuban is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- (GPL).
+ However, some of the extension modules in the extension subdirectory are
+ licensed under other Free Software licenses.
+ See the respective README files for details.

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