[El] RHEL5: Problem with Qgis 1.6.0 and some python-dependant plugins

[Mauricio Zambrano]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 10:48 +0200, Mathieu Baudier wrote: 
> > No, I have the gdal-python module.
> 
> The GDAL python in ELGIS 5 is still built against python 2.4
> I think that this explains most of your problems. I also have quite a
> few QGIS plugins not working because of that.

It is reassuring to know that I'm not the only one with this issue.

> (and others QGIS plugins are simply relying on python 2.6 libraries
> which are not available either)
> 
> A solution could be to build a gdal-python26 module, using python 2.6,
> because we probably want gdal-python to keep using the standard EL
> Python (2.4).

BTW, do you know if ELGIS repository  will be available for RHEL6 ?

> 
> I have booked this ticket to follow this up:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/el/ticket/4
> but I don't know when there will be time to look at this.

Thanks !. 

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mathieu

Cheers,

Mauricio

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