Introduction

Important

The content of this page is outdated and is for archiving purposes only.

pgRouting requirements

To install/compile pgRouting the following applications/libraries are required:

• pgRouting source code (http://pgrouting.postlbs.org)
• C and C++ compilers
• PostgreSQL version >= 8.0
• PostGIS version >= 1.0
• The Boost Graph Library (BGL). Version >= 1.33 which contains the astar.hpp (http://www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/index.html)
• The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (GAUL) (http://gaul.sourceforge.net)
• Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) version >= 3.2 (http://www.cgal.org)

For installation instructions have a look at the documentation pages.

The FOSS4G2007 workshop installation has been done on Xubuntu 7.04 and is provided as a VMware image. You can download the virtual machine image from http://download.osgeo.org/pgrouting/foss4g2007/W-12/

Workplace access

• Download the compressed VMware image and extract the file
• Start VM Player and load the workshop virtual machine
• If root access is required, use

username: pgrouting
password: foss4g

Get the source

• Download the latest scripts and templates
• Save the tarball (ie. on your desktop)
• Open a terminal window and extract the files

cd Desktop/
tar -xzf foss4g_w12.tar.gz

• Copy the files into your web root directory and change ownershop

sudo cp -R foss4g_w12 /var/www/
sudo chown -R pgrouting /var/www/foss4g_w12