3.1.1 Necessary components

To be able to compile SportWatcher you need the following components:

KDE 4.1.x

Since version 0.6 SportWatcher needs at least version 4.1.0 of KDE. It will not compile with older versions of it!

GDAL 1.5.x

SportWatcher is able to display a map underneath a track. This is made with the help of the GDAL library. But this library is optional. It is possible, to compile SportWatcher even without GDAL installed. Though the ability to display maps is missing then.
Debian testing supports currently version 1.5.4 of GDAL. Up to version 8.04 TLS of Ubuntu (Hardy Heron), only version 1.4.x of GDAL is supported. This version of GDAL is not appropriate for SportWatcher.

It is no problem to use the newer version 1.6.0 of GDAL. SportWatcher will compile and function very well with the newest version.

Currently openSUSE 11.0 doesn't support GDAL out of the box. There are some easy to find places, where you can download GDAL for openSUSE, but it's not easy to satisfy the dependencies, GDAL needs. Therefore I've forgone to include GDAL. This means, that version 0.5 of SportWatcher does not support maps on openSUSE 11.0.

Also openSUSE 11.1 dows not support GDAL. I decided to compile the binary version with it. To make it simple to compile SprortWatcher yourself, you can download GDAL for openSUSE 11.1 from here:


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