[El] QGIS 1.5.0 in elgis-plus-testing (with python plugins support)

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote--------
Subject: [El] QGIS 1.5.0 in elgis-plus-testing (with python plugins support)
Date: 30.09.2010 22:21

>Hi,
>
>it was long and painful, but we finally got it: the latest version of
>QGIS running on CentOS 5, with the python plugins.
>

Wow! 

>If you already installed a previous version of QGIS from the ELGIS, it
>is probably better to do a little cleaning:
> yum remove PyQt4
>(this will also remove qgis, it is required since our new PyQt4 has a
>different package name and some files conflicts)
>
>You can also remove or downgrade sip, since we don't use it anymore:
> yum remove sip
>
>Enable the elgis-plus-testing repo (in
>/etc/yum.repos.d/elgis-testing.repo).
>
>And install QGIS:
> yum install qgis qgis-python
>
>(please note that this updates the base qt4!)
>
>The GRASS plugin seems to work although you need to specify manually
>the GRASS installation path /usr/lib(64)/grass-6.4.0 when starting the
>first time:
> yum install qgis-grass
>
>A few technical details since the issue was discussed on this list:
>- as we suspected the issue was with the version of python, therefore
>our QGIS is now based on python26 from EPEL
>- but QGIS relies on PyQt4, which relies on SIP, both being related to
>a particular version of python
>- therefore we rebuilt SIP (python26-sip) and PyQt4 (python26-PyQt4)
>so that they deploy as python26 extensions instead as extensions of
>the base python
>- then, just a few hacks on the Fedora spec file for QGIS 1.5.0
>

I've followed your instructions and it installed without problems. Loading some random shape files or connecting to a PostGIS was fine.

>Cheers,
>
>Mathieu

Mes compliments!

Peter
 
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