<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Andrej,<br><br>From what I gathered, osgeo4w-setup.exe installs its own python and liblas module, and I do not know of a way to tell osgeo4w-setup which python to install liblas.<br><br>I had 4 copies of python in my computer (2 from ArcGIS installation and 2 for my own use) before I installed osgeo4w.<br>It would be much nicer if I can run my python scripts within the IDE (or in the python versions I have been using), but I do not know how to do that. <br>I am a beginner in liblas myself.<br>
Maybe someone in the forum can suggest a way to do that?<br><br>There is a separate liblas installation download you can try:<br><a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/libLAS">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/libLAS</a><br>It is on a previous version of liblas (1.6.0) but it looks for python versions from the registry and prompts you which version you would like to install to.<br>It had worked well for me on reading and writing LAS files until I needed to add projection information to the LAS header.<br><br>Stanley<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Andrej Kobler" <andrej.kobler@gozdis.si><br><b>To: </b>"Stanley Wong" <s.wong@kucerainternational.com><br><b>Cc: </b>liblas-devel@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:32:26 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [Liblas-devel] problem with reinstalling liblas in Python<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">There is a python.exe in c:\OSGeo4W\bin\,
however it turns out that both C:\Program Files\pythonxy\ and in C:\Python27\ lack
any files or folders named liblas. So it seems to me that after my second python
installation the OSGeo4W did not copy any liblas stuff into the python folders.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Would it help to delete the c:\OSGeo4W
folder and then run the osgeo4w-setup.exe again?</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 20. september 2011 14:49<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Andrej Kobler<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> liblas-devel@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Liblas-devel]
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Andrej,<br>
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Please check if you have a python.exe in c:\OSGeo4W\bin\<br>
If so, try this:<br>
1. Open OSGeo4W shell, then type in <br>
2. c:\OSGeo4W\bin\python.exe <your_script>.py<br>
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Stanley<br>
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<andrej.kobler@gozdis.si><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span></b>liblas-devel@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent: </span></b>Tuesday, September 20, 2011
5:27:01 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span></b>[Liblas-devel] problem
with reinstalling liblas in Python</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Hi,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">I have a problem with reinstalling liblas
in Python and any help would be much appreciated.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Since I know next to nothing about
compilers, the recipe how to install liblas with Python (<a href="http://liblas.org/osgeo4w.html" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://liblas.org/osgeo4w.html">http://liblas.org/osgeo4w.html</a>)
was a life-saver for me. However I somehow succeeded in ruining my liblas
installation and I am unable to recreate it, even by following the exact same
steps as the first time. Short description of the situation:</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">In
MS Windows XP I installed liblas on top of Pythonxy environment (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/">http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/</a>)
following the recipe. At this point liblas worked perfectly with Python.</span></font>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Due
to some unrelated problems I had to remove Python (using Windows / Add and
remove programs). Unfortunately, after reinstalling Python and then
executing liblas command from OSGeo4W shell, Python could not find liblas,
reporting ImportError: No module named liblas. </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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