[Qgis-user] Install problem on OS X 10.9

[William Kyngesburye]

Argh, those small details get lost in big updates.  Fixed.

On May 29, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:

> Hi Gabriel,
> 
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Gabriel Sidman <gabrielsidman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm an new QGIS user, and am getting the following error upon opening QGIS 2.2: 
> 
> "Unable to load GdalTools plugin.
> The required "osgeo [python-gdal]" module is missing.
> Install it and try again."
> 
> Verify that the following file exists:
> /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/gdal-py2.7.pth
> 
> and that its contents are:
> import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.11/Python/2.7/site-packages')
> 
> (@William, I just installed latest GDAL and the gdal-py2.7.pth still appears to reference version 1.10. On a clean install, this may be causing the reported issue here.)
> 
> At the bottom of the Raster menu, open GdalTools Settings dialog, and try pasting in these settings:
> 
> * Path to GDAL python modules: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
> * Path to the GDAL executables: /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs
> * GDAL Help path: /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Resources/doc
> 
> Then, relaunch QGIS and see if error persists.
>  
> QGIS still opens and has some functionality, but I think I'm not getting complete functionality.
> 
> I'm running OS X 10.9.3 on a Mac Book Pro with 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. I've installed GDAL 11.1 Complete, GSL framework v1.16-1, matplotlib 1.3.1-2 (all from http://www.kyngchaos.com), and Python 2.7.6 
> 
> Note, only the system Python is supported. Installing Python 2.7.6 will not update the Python that QGIS is compiled against (i.e. the system's). Any modules/packages should be installed in system Python, which is the default for Kyngchaos installers. Also, for Mac OS X 10.9.3, the system Python is already at 2.7.5, so upgrading to 2.7.6 will not add much.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>  
> I see this error has been documented before, but it seems to be related to new releases of OS X, but for me this is the first time I have ever installed QGIS so I don't think that's my issue. 
> 
> Any thoughts on where I am going wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gabriel
> 
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