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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m a graduate student in the South Dakota State University
Image Processing Lab, studying Electrical Engineering and Remote Sensing. I
wanted to introduce myself to the group, and say I really appreciate all of
your contributions to the open-source geospatial community. The numerous apps
that are available through the foundation have helped me greatly in the past
few months, and I don’t think I could have done the analysis I wanted to
without your help. Big Thank You!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Secondly, I am very interested in helping the cause and
contributing in any way that I can. I am not quite at the level where I think I
could actually develop any software, but I have convinced my research lab to
start using the OSGeo Live 7.0 distribution in a VM ware, with the hopes of
getting rid of Windows & Matlab altogether. With that, we have found some
strange bugs when trying to update everything to the latest & greatest; we
eventually found it had something to do with both the zygrib & otb
dependencies. One of my colleges seems to have found a work around, so I
thought I would share: </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">sudo
sed -i -e 's_.*_#&_' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zygrib.list<br>
sudo apt-get update<br>
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<br>
sudo dpkg -i --force-all
/var/cache/apt/archives/otb-bin_3.20.0-0ppa~precise1_i386.deb<br>
sudo dpkg -i --force-all
/var/cache/apt/archives/libotb3.20_3.20.0-0ppa~precise1_i386.deb<br>
sudo apt-get install -f<br>
sudo reboot now</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By issuing these commands, it seems we can update the
system. Without some of these terms, eventually our VM always crashes due to
conflicting dependencies from the PPA repo. We thought we should let you know,
as our first ‘contribution’ to the cause. My apologies that it really doesn’t
fix anything, but it might be a good conversation starter! </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ll keep an eye out for places we can help.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Looking forward to participating in the open-source
revolution. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jake Brinkmann</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GRA, Image Processing Laboratory</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">South Dakota State University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jakebrinkmann@gmail.com">jakebrinkmann@gmail.com</a></p></div></div>