Re: GMT support for Ubuntu 13.10

GMT5 works fine with local build on Ubuntu 13.10

Joaquim

> Hi Marcus,
>
> for me, GMT4 on Ubuntu 13.10 64bit is totally broken. However, you can
> still upgrade to Saucy Salamander and keep using GMT4 from Raring
> Ringtail. After the dist-upgrade, you just have to create a file
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-gmt4 with the contents
>
> ---8<-------
>
> Package: gmt
> Pin: release n=raring*
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Package: gmt-doc
> Pin: release v=13.04, l=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Package: libgmt4
> Pin: release v=13.04, l=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release v=13.04, l=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: -1
>
> ---8<-------
>
> And then, after making sure that both Raring and Saucy repositories are
> activated, remove gmt* packages from your system, apt-get update, and
> install gmt again. Then, even though your system is at 13.10, the GMT
> packages will be taken from 13.04.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas.
>
>
> On 03.01.2014 13:51, Marcus Badger wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Ubuntu is now encouraging me to update to 13.10, normally I would do
>> immediately but there have been some problems noted here with GMT
>> support and GMT is very important to me - does anyone know the status of
>> GMT support in Ubuntu 13.10?
>>
>> many thanks and happy new year!
>> Marcus.
>>
>

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