[Qgis-user] How to open ESRI geodatabase in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9 on Ubuntu?

[Johan Nilsson]

The problem with the old gdal was becouse I only have binaries in the ppa!



2012/11/11 Johan Nilsson <joni8135 at gmail.com>

> I have tried to follow the workflow by Alex, step by step down below, by
> start download ESRIS API/SDK and souce-files for gdal-bin and unpacked it,
> but find that there are another version! I have tried to described my steps
> down here.
>
> 2012/11/7 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>
>> Looking at the gdal-build-mrsid helper tool, I think the pattern is:
>> 1. download the SDK from ESRI
>>
> Downloaded FileGDB_API_1_2-32.tar.gz from ESRIs homepage (ok)
>
>
>> 2. build a copy of gdal (same version you have on your system already)
>> off to the side with the FGDB plugin enabled
>>
> *Bold *is comand in bash-terminal...
>
> *sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade* <--update and upgrade
> *mkdir ~/Desktop/gdal-mod* <--create a folder namned gdal-mod on my
> desktop, -mod stands for modified, as I going to change and compile a new .
> *cd ~/Desktop/gdal-mod* <--move cursor to the created folder.
> *apt-get source gdal-bin *<--download source-cod from my respositories
> (same as my binary installed on my system, into the folder I stand in
> ~/Desktop/gdal-mod)
> *sudo apt-get build-dep gdal* <--geting dependencies so my system can
> build the package gdal.
>
> I moved the downloaded FileGDB_API_1_2-32.tar.gz to the folder
> ~/Desktop/gdal-mod and run:
>
> joni at Intel:~/Desktop/gdal-mod$ *tar xzf FileGDB_API_1_2-32.tar.gz*<--unpack the package tar.gz.
> the file in the folder ~/Desptop/gdal-mod are now:
> joni at Intel:~/Desktop/gdal-mod$*ls*
> FileGDB_API                gdal-1.6.3
> gdal_1.6.3-3build2.dsc
> FileGDB_API_1_2-32.tar.gz  gdal_1.6.3-3build2.diff.gz
> gdal_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz
>
> What I now see it that the version of gdal is gdal_1.6.3, not gdal
> 1.9.2-2.
>
> If I go in to Synaptic and right click on gdal-bin (installed version
> 1.9.2--2~lucis5) and choice *'Property'* and the tab *'Version'* it says:
> Available versions:
> 1.9.2-2ucis5 (lucid)
> 1.6.3-3build2 (lucid)
>
> Can someone explain what's wrong? I have Ubuntu Lucid 10.04LTS and I have
> added ppa http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu.
>
> Could it be that *apt-get source gdal-bin *just get whats in the ordinal
> repositories, not added ppa?
>
> /Johan N /Cheers
>
>
> 3. Install/Copy that plugin into your ogr (gdal?) plugins folder
>>
>> I'm still digging to see if someone has written out a helper script or
>> more clear instructions.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Alex
>>
>
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