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2  Thuban - a geographic data viewer  Thuban - a Geographic Data Viewer
3  =================================  =================================
4    
5  Thuban is an interactive viewer for geographic data. It is written in  $Date$
6  Python using the wxWindows toolkit for portability. It runs on Unix-like  $Revision$
 systems and on Windows.  
7    
8    Thuban is an interactive viewer for geographic data.  
9    Python and the wxWidgets framework ensure great portability.
10    Thuban is Free Software and runs on GNU/Linux, Windows
11    and several other operating systems.
12    
13    Homepage:                       https://thuban.intevation.org
14    Development infrastructure:     https://wald.intevation.org/projects/thuban/
15    
16  About the Name  About the Name
17  --------------  --------------
# Line 14  Thuban is the name of a star in the cons Line 20  Thuban is the name of a star in the cons
20  About 4000 years ago it was the north star.  About 4000 years ago it was the north star.
21    
22    
23    Requirements
24    ------------
25    
26    Thuban requires the following software to be installed:
27    
28      Python     2.2.1    http://www.python.org
29      wxWidgets  2.6.3.2  http://www.wxwidgets.org (formerly known as wxWindows)
30      wxPython   2.6.3.2  http://www.wxpython.org
31      proj       4.4.5    http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/
32      SQLite     2.8.3    http://sqlite.org/
33      PySQLite   0.4.3    http://pysqlite.org/
34    
35    The versions given are the lowest versions that are known to work. for
36    proj, sqlite and pysqlite somewhat older versions probably work as well.
37    Note that the wxPython version must be the same as the wxWidgets version
38    (Some wxPython binary packages already contain the right wxWidgets version)
39    
40    Optional software:
41    
42      GDAL       1.3.2  http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/
43         for raster image (geo-tiff) support
44    
45      psycopg    1.0.x  http://initd.org/software/psycopg
46         for postgis connections. Newer version probably also work
47    
48      RXP        1.2.x  http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
49         usually comes directly with pyRXP.
50      pyRXP      0.9    http://www.reportlab.org/pyrxp.html
51         only for the automatic tests to validate Thuban's XML files.
52    
53    
54  Installation  Installation
55  ------------  ------------
56    
57  Building Thuban:  Building Thuban (this compiles the extension modules but leaves them in
58    a directory under build/):
59    
60     python setup.py build     python setup.py build
61    
# Line 40  script, run Line 78  script, run
78     python setup.py --help     python setup.py --help
79    
80    
81    If you build from SVN and want to have translated menus, dialogs etc.
82    you have to build the message catalogs manually before you run setup.py.
83    See po/README for more information.
84    
85    
86    Build Troubleshooting
87    ---------------------
88    
89    When building Thuban, you might have problems because of a missing file
90    wx/wxPython/wxPython.h.  This file is part of wxPython and may be
91    packaged in a separate package.  Unfortunately, on some systems this
92    file is not packaged at all.  On those systems you can try a work-around
93    built into Thuban, by passing the --use-wx-python-swig-hack to the
94    build_ext command.  This can be done on the command line for the build
95    command like this:
96    
97       python setup.py  build_ext --use-wx-python-swig-hack  build
98    
99    You can also use it with the install_local command:
100    
101       python setup.py  build_ext --use-wx-python-swig-hack  install_local
102    
103    Note, that this work-around relies on some wxPython internals and may
104    cease to work at some point.  We tested it with wxPython 2.6.
105    
106    
107  License  License
108  -------  -------
109    
110  Thuban is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License  Thuban is licensed under the terms of the
111  (GPL).  GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
   
112    
113    However, some of the extension modules in the extension subdirectory are
114    licensed under other Free Software licenses.
115    See the respective README files for details.
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