[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5

Mathieu Baudier mbaudier at argeo.org
Tue Sep 14 04:41:43 PDT 2010


> Thanks for all the help and advice on this, everybody! Especially for the
> info on EPEL and ELGIS. I guess I had no idea that getting stable and

You can browse the spec files here:
https://projects.argeo.org/elgis/svn/factory/trunk/rpmbuild/

in order to see whether the switches you need are all there.
At first glance I think they are, but if you need some more, I can try
to add them.

> software. And it sounds like QGIS is a non-starter on CentOS. But I've got

I'm still trying to get QGIS fully working on CentOS 5, but as Micha
put it, this may not be worth the effort given that RHEL/CentOS 6 is
around the corner.

For the time being you have QGIS 1.4 working, integrated with GRASS,
BUT without the Python plugins (a big limitation).
We also have SRPMS for QGIS 1.0.2 (their LTS version) but there was
little interest in it, so we dropped it.

> I appreciate the help as always.

Don't hesitate to join the EL GIS mailing-list:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/el

This project is very user driven: we support what people actually use,
so this is the right place to send your wish list.
And feedback is very useful for us!



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