[Qgis-user] qgis on powerPC

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/26/2011 12:44 PM, Giovanni Manghi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:00 -0500, Sergio Zárate wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> New user of Linux attempting to run qgis in powerpc (iMac G3) running
>> Ubuntu 10.10.
> 
> 
> I recently had a training course attendee that used with success qgis on
> a powerpc machine, installed on OsX OS (using the available packages).
> 
> 
>> qgis versión 1.4.0+12730-3ubuntu2 does not run beyond showing logo and
>> stating GUI is being configured after which logo dissapears and
>> nothing else happens.
>>
>> Synaptic installs the following:
> 
> 
> did you used a particular repository with powerpc packages?
> 
> did you tried to compile from source?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Giovanni --
> 

If I recall correctly there is a known bug in newer Qt that keeps it
from running on PowerPC. So it may be a dead end very soon though I
thought either 1.3 or 1.4 still ran on PowerPC linux.

Any of the PowerPC users out there remember running into this?

Thanks,
Alex