Very small and nervous fanfare
Comments(10) Well, I guess I shouldn’t really put it off any further…
The very first release of Portable GIS is now available for download here. Phew! While you don’t have to register to download, it would be nice if you did, so I know who is interested and can contact about updates. No spam, I promise.
For people that don’t read the readme: this is not cross-platform, it’s for windows only. Unzip it and move the folders inside to the root of a USB stick, then double-click on the menu exe to access the programmes.
Edit: don’t forget to run the setup programmes for those that need it to change to the correct drive letter.
Note the big disclaimer: Be nice- it’s working as far as I can tell, but there might be issues and I’ll try and address them as soon as possible but this isn’t my full-time job.
Note also that very soon I’ll be moving the hosting and maintenance of this to somewhere else, which is why there are different email addresses in the package. Use those, or contact me here, it’s fine…
A couple of glitches on my system. GRASS won’t start; command window starts up then stops. gvSIG command window opens up, runs some commands, then gives the message ‘C:\Documents’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file’. The latter can probably be solved by putting the file path in quotes.
Sorry about that Leszek! With the GRASS problem- if you’re running it off a stick is it a slow stick? I find that on one of mine (an old USB 1 stick) it takes several minutes for GRASS to kick in after the command window closes, but on a fast stick it should come up straight away. Can you also try it on the root of your C drive instead? The gvsig issue is odd because I didn’t change anything in their portable edition at all, don’t get that on my and can’t see where that line would come from, so I guess I’ll ask on their mailing list and post an update if necessary.
I noticed that with Grass too, got the following error message:
access: Permission denied
ERROR: LOCATION <> not available
The is probably because my USB stick became my F: Drive when inserted.
Location from above message was:
D : / USBGIS / DATA / GRASS / spearfish60
Hi Ronan,
Did you run the setup programme first? That should detetct your drive letter and change it.
Thanks
Jo
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Hi Jo,
Actually, I ran it from the root drive first, rather than from a thumbdrive, figuring it would load faster that way so that I could check it out, so speed had nothing to do with it. I’m back from a trip now, so I’ll try it on my main system to see what happens.
Leszek
Hi Leszek,
Well the next question is- did you extract the folders and files from within the zip and move them to the root drive or did you leave them inside the USBGIS_011 folder? They do need to be extracted. Having said that, my understanding is that gvSIG at least should run from whatever folder you want and I didn’t make any changes to that! Let me know how you get on.
Thanks
Jo
Jo
I just got started testing and it is very impressive. The only bug I found so far is the apache configure file http.conf. On my machine the drive is J: and I ran all the setup scripts but the last section of http.conf maps FWTools to drive F:. When I change that Xampplite starts fine.
Thanks!
Bruce
Hi Bruce,
Doh! Yes, that is a bug. I will see if I can fix it and release a patch over the weekend. Thanks for the feedback and let me know of any other issues!
Jo