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Comments on the Debian package of GMT
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NOTE: I changed some source files of GMT to force the system into the
directory layout used by Debian. Normally you do not need to care about
this since the binaries provided here will find everything without your
intervention. If you however set GMTHOME you will run into problems if
you are trying to use the installed datasets because for compatibility
with the original GMT will expect the upstream directory layout.
Summary: Don't set your GMTHOME environment variable unless you want to
use a different dataset that the one delivered by the Debian packages.
The GMT distribution is provided in the following Debian packages:
gmt: Contains command line utilities and the shared libraries
gmt-manpages: Has the manpages to the commands in gmt
gmt-doc-ps: The users and reference guide in Postscript format
gmt-tutorial-ps: Contains the tutorial in Postscript format
gmt-man-html: all the manpages in HTML format
gmt-tutorial: the tutorial in HTML
gmt-doc: the users guide in HTML
gmt-examples: a bunch of example scripts how to use GMT
gmt-coast-low: low resolution coastlines to get you started
Originally I made two other coastline packages:
gmt-coast-high: high resolution coastline data (no longer available!)
gmt-coast-full: full resolution coastline data (no longer available!)
As these were too big for going into the Debian archive, I am now
working on an installer package which will be called gmt-coast-installer
(otherwise it could break existing installations). Sadly, I will not
get it done for potato so you have to install the coastline data manually.
See README.coastlines for information about that task.
The manpages are split off into another package because it is separate
upstream and I wanted to use pristine source.
-- Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:02:46 +0100
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