[Qgis-user] No python on Fedora 10

[Micha Silver]

dbnakuru wrote:

> For whatever reason you have to install the qgis-devel rpm to get this link
> made for you.  It seems like an error in the packaging.
>
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>   
Thanks for that additional bit of information.
Indeed a packaging error. I don't think in general you should need 
*-devel packages to get regular user features working.

-- 
Micha
> Micha Silver wrote:
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>> Micha Silver wrote:
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>>> Jose' Mari'a Michia wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 2008/12/20 Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> I've just finished setting up a F 10 machine, x86_64 with qgis and
>>>>> GRASS.  I got the qgis rpms from the silfreed.net repo. It seems python
>>>>> isn't recognized.
>>>>> Here's are qgis  packages:
>>>>> [micha at hayun-33 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep qgis
>>>>> qgis-grass-1.0.0-0.1.pre2.fc10.x86_64
>>>>> qgis-python-1.0.0-0.1.pre2.fc10.x86_64
>>>>> qgis-1.0.0-0.1.pre2.fc10.x86_64
>>>>> qgis-theme-classic-1.0.0-0.1.pre2.fc10.x86_64
>>>>>
>>>>> and:
>>>>> [micha at hayun-33 ~]$ python -V
>>>>> Python 2.5.2
>>>>>
>>>>> But no python plugins, and no python console.
>>>>> What have I missed?
>>>>>
>>>>> (Interstingly, GRASS 6.3.0 starts up on this machine with the wxPython
>>>>> interface straight away.)
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> I've had problems with Python plugins, in QGIS, and I've solved these
>>>> problems by adding some paths to the system variable "PYTHONPATH"
>>>>
>>>> In my system:
>>>>
>>>> export
>>>> PYTHONPATH=.:/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages:/usr/local/share/qgis/python
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Thanks. I tried that, but no joy. There was no env variable 
>>> PYTHONPATH. So I added it with:
>>> export 
>>> PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages:/usr/share/qgis/python
>>> Still no python plugins.
>>> Micha
>>>       
>> I think I've found the problem: Comparing with an Ubuntu installation, I 
>> see that there needs to be a soft link in /usr/lib64 from the 
>> libqgispython.so.x.x to libqgispython.so. Once I added the link, python 
>> worked.
>> I guess package maintainers might need to add this in the postinstall.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Micha
>>     
>>>> Saludos
>>>> Jose' Mari'a
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
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