Re: [opennms-discuss] Maps - SVG Viewer on Linux works but not for maps

[Aaron P. <aar...@gm...>]

Thanks Joed.  Good idea.
http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Installing_SVG_Viewer_on_Linux



On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Johan Edstrom
<joh...@he...> wrote:
> Put it on the Wiki if you don't mind?
> Thanks!
> On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Aaron Paxson wrote:
>
> Installing wine and ies4linux (and it's dependencies), I was able to
> get the SVGViewer to work in IE6 on Linux (specifically CentOS-5).  I
> used yum, but I'm sure you can use whatever installer your OS uses.
>
> 1).  yum install wine
> 2).  download/install cabextract (http://www.cabextract.org.uk/)
> 3).  download ies4linux (wget -c
> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz)
> 4).  Extract and execute ies4linux (./ies4linux).  Choose IE6 to install
>
> Now that IE6 is installed and can be opened.  It's time to install SVGViewer
>
> 5).  Open Maps, and download the SVGViewer.exe that it directs you to.
> 6).  Change your WINEPREFIX to be IE6 when installing the viewer:  #
> export WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.ies4linux/ie6/
> 7).  Install the SVGViewer (# wine SVGViewer.exe)
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Paxson <aar...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> I wonder if anyone has tried it with IE / Wine on Linux?
>
> I'll try that now, and report back.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Kay Obermueller <kob...@we...>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 10:12 -0600, Aaron Paxson wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I'm moving my map station to a Centos 5 machine devoted to displaying
>
> Maps.  However, I've installed the SVG viewer.  I can successfully
>
> view http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/PetitsChevaux1.svg.
>
> However, when attempting to view maps, the display is showing:  "To
>
> view this page you need an SVG Viewer.  There is currently no Adobe
>
> SVG Viewer available for your browser".
>
> What does the code check?  I've tried both Konquerer and Firefox.
>
> Both can open SVG images, and both receive the above message.
>
> I also had this problem. It turned out that for now only M$ iexplorer
>
> with the adobe plugin can display maps. The native SVG viewing
>
> implementations in firefox and ksvg lack some features. SVG 1.2 is
>
> needed.
>
> There is a branch of ONMS for firefox but it is considered too slowly.
>
> There is some discussion going on about the future of maps in the
>
> mailing list right now. Therefore I'm hoping for the things to come.
>
> Kay
>
>
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