How to install Emerillon Map Viewer in Ubuntu and Fedora

Emerillon Map Viewer doesn't have a stable release yet. So, it is not included in the main repos of many distros. But you can download and install the development packages. Although its always advised to install a stable release but the release 0.1.1 seemed pretty stable. So, if you want to give it a try then, in this small howto, we will see how to install Emerillon on Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" and Fedora 12 "Constantine".

How to install Emerillon on Ubuntu 9.10

Its .deb package is not available in the repos, so you will have to add the ppa(personal package archive) to install it. Either enter this command in the terminal

[shredder12]$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mathieu-tl/emerillon

or open the /etc/apt/sources.list file

[shredder12]$ sudo  gedit  /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the following 2 lines in it

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mathieu-tl/emerillon/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mathieu-tl/emerillon/ubuntu karmic main 

Run the update

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get update

and at last install emerillon, the map viewer

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install emerillon

How to install Emerillon on Fedora 12

The rpm is not included in the main repos but you may download the .rpm package for Fedora core 12 here. Please don't try to install the rpm on the previous version because it may be a cause of trouble

Now install it using the following commnad.

[root]# rpm -i  <package_name>.rpm

After the installation go to Applications -> Accessories -> Map Viewer to open emerillon. If you can't find such an option then just execute "emerillon" in the terminal.