[Ubuntu] Hello (plus kubuntu Jaunty issues with Qgis)

[Alan Boudreault]

Hi Ricardo,

Effectively, the QGis doesn't work (since the package python-qgis is 
installed) if the user use the kubuntu PPA. The reason is simple, the PPA of 
kubuntu provides a new python-qt4 package and qgis isn't built with that 
version. Unfortunately, I can do nothing for that... you imagine if I would 
have to take care of all PPAs. Anyone can create a new PPA on launchpad and 
put a new version of a basic package in it.

I don't know how exactly you solved your problem, but here's what could be 
done to get QGis working under kde 4.3:

1- apt-get install devscripts build-essential
2- apt-get source qgis
3- apt-get build-dep qgis (this will install all build dependencies needed)
4- cd qgis-1.2.0
5- debuild -us -uc
6- cd ..
7- dpkg -i python-qgis_1.2.0-1~jaunty1_i386.deb

And your qgis will work. Note that this procedure needs to install all build 
dependencies *-dev packages needed. Normally, it's better to rebuild a package 
on a developement machine and not on a production server.

Hope this helps.
Alan

On August 24, 2009 10:16:08 am Alan Boudreault wrote:
> Ricardo,
>
> Could you provide me the list of your python, kde and qt package list. Just
> do a `dpkg -l | egrep -e '(python|kde|qt)'`. I'll  try to take a look as
> soon as I can.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
> On August 24, 2009 10:03:47 am Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da wrote:
> > Hi Albin, thanks for your assistance
> > I am the person who started that thread that you speak about, on the
> > qgis-user list ;)
> >
> > I decided to bring it here as it seemed appropriate, since I am using
> > the ubuntugis repository.
> > I have fixed this issue on my end by recompiling Qgis, but still it
> > would be nice to have it properly fixed. It's weird that Alan can run
> > Qgis fine while we struggle with this problem.
> >
> > I am not suficiently skilled to root out the problem, but if someone
> > wants to look into it I can provide all the info necessary.

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Alan Boudreault
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