[Qgis-user] MrSid

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Lee <muellerl at gmail.com> wrote:
> My issue with attempting to install qgis from source, as directed in the
> guides is an error when trying to use ccmake
>
> " CMake Error at cmake/Flex.cmake:14 (MESSAGE):
>    flex not found - aborting "
>
> This error has prevented me from going any further.
>

Are you following the guide in INSTALL in the top of the source tree?
Note that the guide in 1.7 still refers to svn but you should retrieve
the sources from github now.

sudo apt-get build-dep qgis

should get you all the build dependencies you need including flex.

Regards

Tim


> Again, to recap, I have mrsid incorporated into gdal, but it does not work
> in qgis. Giovanni has suggested qgis might automatically be falling back to
> an older version of gdal, whereas I have incorporated mrsid into 1.8.
>
> --
> all the best,
> Lee
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Lee <muellerl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That very well might be my case. Do you have a recommendation to fix it? I
>> installed qgis through the software manager, and not from source. So I'm
>> automatically imagining it was the trunk install. Although a lot of these
>> issues are somewhat over my head.
>>
>> --
>> all the best,
>> Lee
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Giovanni Manghi
>> <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Don't know if is your case, but for instance if you use the
>>> Ubuntugis_unstable repo and the nightly builds one, you must remember
>>> that qgis-trunk is compiled against gdal 1.6 (available in the main
>>> Ubuntu repo) but probably you have also installed gdal 1.8 from the
>>> Ubuntugis repo, so if you add the mrsid support you are adding it to
>>> gdal 1.8, but qgis-trunk uses gdal 1.6.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> -- Giovanni --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 10:57 -0400, Lee wrote:
>>> > I am not sure about nightly. I do have the ubuntugis and unstable
>>> > repositories added. I do not currently have nightly enabled.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > all the best,
>>> > Lee
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Giovanni Manghi
>>> > <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >         on qhat platform? Linux/Ubuntu? are you using both the
>>> >         Ubuntugis and
>>> >         nightly builds repositories?
>>> >
>>> >         cheers
>>> >
>>> >         -- Giovanni --
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >         On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 10:40 -0400, Lee wrote:
>>> >         > I seem to have finally incorporated MrSID into gdal:
>>> >         >
>>> >         > gdalinfo --formats | grep MrSID
>>> >         >   MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
>>> >         (MrSID)
>>> >         >   JP2MrSID (ro): MrSID JPEG2000
>>> >         >
>>> >         >
>>> >         > However, if I try to add a .sid file into qgis I still get
>>> >         an
>>> >         > unsupported raster format error.
>>> >         >
>>> >         > Any thoughts on how to get this to work?
>>> >         >
>>> >         > --
>>> >         > all the best,
>>> >         > Lee
>>> >         >
>>> >         >
>>> >         >
>>> >
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