[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.4 not linking to GDAL?

[Alex Mandel]

Ken Norris wrote:
> 
> 
> This wiki entry should give you the information you need:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/UserTutorials
> 
> Also one additional note about ecw:
> http://n2.nabble.com/Ubuntu-How-to-add-MrSID-and-ECW-support-into-GDAL-td4088393.html
> 
>  Micha 
> I appreciate the feedback. I certainly went through and acted on those
> entries to install the MrSID and ECW support earlier, i.e. before this last
> series of attempts to get QGIS 1.4 operational. Isn't the functional
> gdal_translate operation for ECW and MrSID proof of that? Certainly the
> gdalinfo --formats comes up with:
> Supported Formats:
> 
> Does it matter into which directories these gdal and QGIS
> files/programs/libraries are loaded? There is a chance, in the confusion,
> that I scattered them throughout the system.
> 
> Ken

I would look to make sure that you do not have more than one install of
GDAL. Are you using GDAL from Ubuntugis, source or another repo?

QGIS might be using a different GDAL install than the 1st one on your
path as shown by GDALformats.

Alex