[Qgis-user] MrSID on QGIS 2.6.,1, Mac OSK 10.10.1

[Randal Hale]

Can I force the install of the libgdal-mrsid package on trusty although 
it's for oneiric/lucy...which I think is back in the 10/11 series for 
ubuntu?

Randy



On 12/08/2014 10:12 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Le lundi 08 décembre 2014 16:05:08, William Kyngesburye a écrit :
>> I don't do linux, but I'm sure it's possible - the MrSID SDK exists for
>> linux.  I use a simple custom makefile to make it as a GDAL plugin, using
>> an installed GDAL.  Ask on the GDAL mailing list, someone may have already
>> done it.
> --> For Ubuntu with UbuntuGIS PPA :
> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/TutorialMrSid
>
>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 8:17 AM, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
> wrote:
>>> !!
>>>
>>> Is there a way to port this to Linux as we are now the odd man
>>> out......and Sid files drive me an extra 6 minutes and about 6.5 GB of
>>> difficulty every time I run into one.
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>> On 12/07/2014 11:03 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>>> Check my site.  The GDAL framework that you should have installed also
>>>> has a separately downloadable plugin for the MrSID format.
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 7, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Dave Peterson <davep at iit.edu> wrote:
>>>>> I need to be able to display MrSID files made available by the state
>>>>> GIS department.  I had them running on QGIS 1.8, OSX 10.6.8, but I’m
>>>>> not sure what I did back then.  Have searched the Web as best I can
>>>>> and haven’t found any instructions for current QGIS with a current OS.
>>>>>   Can anyone help?
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems to me at one point I saw some directions for getting 1.4 to read
>>>>> MrSID, but I can’t find them.  I’m doing GIS volunteer work for Mass
>>>>> Audubon Society, and a lot of their raster stuff is MrSID.  (They use
>>>>> ArcGIS; I can’t afford it.) --
>>>>> Dave Peterson
>>>>>
>>>>> davep at iit.edu
>> -----
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>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
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>> immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?"
>>
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