GpsDrive homepage:  http://www.gpsdrive.de

Here are self-made .debs for Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 from the latest
stable svn branch.

If you installed the stock version earlier (2.10pre4) remove it now:

  apt-get remove gpsdrive gpsdrive-data gpsdrive-scripts


Next you will need to install some prerequisites:

apt-get update
apt-get install gpsd gpsd-clients python-gps espeak gdal-bin gpsbabel \
   graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat postgresql-8.3-postgis \
   python-mapnik speech-dispatcher sqlite3 sqlitebrowser  libgeos-3.1.0 \
   libboost-serialization1.38.0 libboost-date-time1.38.0

(there are probably more, dpkg will let you know)


Then install all the self-made .debs with:

  dpkg -i gpsdrive*.deb openstreetmap-map*.deb


For real-time Mapnik/OpenStreetMap support you will either have to download
the 300mb world boundaries shapefile, or remove references to it from the
osm.xml file(s).

Download:
  DL_URL="http://www.gpsdrive.de/debian/pool/squeeze"
  wget -c "$DL_URL/openstreetmap-mapnik-world-boundaries_16662_all.deb"
  dpkg -i openstreetmap-mapnik-world-boundaries_16662_all.deb

-or-

Bypass:
  sed -i -e 4594,4863d /usr/share/gpsdrive/osm-template.xml
  sed -i -e 4594,4863d ~/.gpsdrive/osm.xml



It is hoped that http://gpsdrive.de/ubuntu/dists/ will soon host semi-official
builds that are confirmed to work, and when that happens these files will be
removed.


H.Bowman
13 June 2010