With some help over on reddit I managed to build the latest GPlates in Fedora.
Here is how I did it and what the problems were.
Download source file
Go to Download GPlates 2.5 – EarthByte
and download the
gplates_2.5.0_src.tar.bz2
file.
My system
I am running latest Fedora 40 with KDE Plasma 6.1 (Wayland).
Dependencies
My main struggle was finding the correct packages in the fedora repositories. I managed to find them using dnf search, dnf provides and searching at https://packages.fedoraproject.org. Additionally, some redditors were very helpful.
Here is the list of programs and libraries from the DEPS.Linux file.
Read it as follows:
• The package or library name listed in DEPS.Linux
→ What to install using sudo dnf install <name>
• cmake (3.10 or newer)
→ cmake
• g++ (4.8.1 or newer, required to support C++11)
→ gcc-c++
• GL library (the OpenGL shared library)
→ mesa-libGLU
→ mesa-libGLU-devel
• GLEW library (the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library)
→ glew
→ glew-devel
• Python library (version 2.7 or 3, preferably 3)
→ python3
→ python3-devel
• Boost library headers (version 1.35 or newer)
→ boost
• Qt library (version 5.6 or newer)
→ qt5-qtxmlpatterns-devel
• Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) (1.3.2 or newer; GDAL 2 is highly recommended.)
→ gdal
→ gdal-devel
• Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) (4.7 or newer; preferably 4.12 or newer for improved CMake support)
→ CGAL-qt5-devel
• PROJ (4.6.0 or newer; preferably 6 or newer)
→ proj
→ proj-devel
• Qwt (6.0.1 or newer; preferably 6.1 or newer)
→ qwt-qt5
→ qwt-qt5-devel
(Yes, it says 6.0.1 or newer, but for some reason it only worked with qt5.)
• zlib
→ zlib
Some packages were already installed.
Most of the packages come with a bunch of other packages.
Build GPlates
Now for the fun part.
Unpack the gplates_2.5.0_src.tar.bz2 file.
Open the file path in the terminal.
For some reason, cmake does not find QWT, eventhough we installed it. So the first thing to enter is:
export QWT_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/qt5
Now run
cmake .
In theory, no error should pop up, because we installed all dependencies.
So you can run
make
now. Note: This takes quite some time. I have quite a beefy machine and it took nearly an hour.
Once it is done, you can run
sudo make install
just as said in the BUILD.Linux file.
Problems
The only problem I have is, that I bought an NVIDIA GPU and because I wanted to update to KDE Plasma 6.1 as soon as it came out, I am only running on the nouveau driver. Just like in blender, Gplates has an transparent viewport for me. If you are using X11 with proprietary NVIDIA drivers or are so lucky to run a GPU not made by NVIDIA, everything should be fine now!
Let me know, if / how it worked for you!