[OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and opensource software

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Do you have more that one QGIS installation on that machine?

Can you do:

sudo updatedb      (to update your slocate database)
locate libqgis_core.so

And paste the results back to me. The libs should have been installed
into /usr/lib e.g. on my system:

[~] ls /usr/lib/libqgis_*
/usr/lib/libqgis_core.so  /usr/lib/libqgis_gui.so

Above is for QGIS installed via my PPA. If you are on a 64bit machine
they could be in /usr/lib64. You should also check you dont have
conflicting packages on your machine:

[~] dpkg -l |grep qgis
ii  libqgis1                                   0.9.1-2
                  QGIS Geographic Information System - shared
ii  libqgis1-dev                               0.9.1-2
                  QGIS Geographic Information System - develop
ii  qgis                                       0.9.1-2
                  Geographic Information System (GIS)

If you get more matches than that try removing the older ones.

Regards

Tim

2008/1/22, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za>:
> Tim, after installing QGis from your PPA, I also installed
> qgis-plugin-grass.
>
> Then I tried to run 'qgis' and got this error:
>
> qgis: error while loading shared libraries: libqgis_core.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory. Any tips?
>
> thanks
>
> Gavin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim Sutton
> Sent: 22 January 2008 12:19 PM
> To: Africa local chapter discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and
> opensource software
>
> Hi All
>
> Please note that Perry wrote that article some time ago and the
> packages he refers to are out of date. Since then I have created an
> Ubuntu PPA (personal package archive) for QGIS so all you need to do
> (assuming you are running Gutsy) is to add:
>
> deb: http://ppa.launchpad.net/timlinux/ubuntu gutsy main
>
> to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get update; apt-get install
> qgis. Updates to QGIS will automatically be downloaded and installed
> after doing that using the standard Ubuntu update-manager along with
> general Ubuntu updates.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 2008/1/22, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za>:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > building a GIS workstation using free and open source software
> >
> > -- see Matt Perry's blog - Turning Ubuntu into a GIS workstation
> >
> > http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=10
> >
> > The instructions take Ubuntu 7.10 and add the following desktop GIS
> > applications:
> >  Postgresql/PostGIS : a relational database with vector spatial data
> > handling
> >  GRASS : A full blown GIS analysis toolset
> >  Quantum GIS: A user-friendly graphical GIS application
> >  GDAL, Proj, Geos : Libraries and utilities for processing spatial
> data
> >  Mapserver : web mapping program and utilites
> >  Python bindings for QGIS, mapserver and GDAL
> >  GPSBabel : for converting between various GPS formats
> >  R : a high-end statistics package with spatial capabilities
> >  GMT : the Generic Mapping Tools for automated high-quality map output
> >
> >
> > (If some on this list try following the instructions, please let the
> list
> > know how you got on with it)
> >
> > From: sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org
> > [mailto:sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org] On Behalf Of
> > Kate Lance
> >  Sent: 21 January 2008 02:56 PM
> >  To: SDI-Africa
> >  Subject: [SDI-Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and open
> > sourcesoftware
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Tim Sutton
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-- 
Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release  Manager
Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS
openModeller Desktop Developer
Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological
niche modelling tool
Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com
Skype: timlinux
Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net