<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hello UbuntuGIS!<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I'm pleased to see you're working on packages for open source GIS on Ubuntu. I'm a GIS user on Kubuntu Jaunty, and it's great to have a source of up to date debs.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I've been trying various ways to import mrsid images into GRASS, and have yet to find a linux-only solution (I've successfully exported sids to img files on ArcInfo in Windows, then imported them into GRASS, but that's less than ideal - Lizard Tech's mrsidgeodecode has small maximum file sizes on all its output formats, which has been a problem, and so on). It looks like the gdal-mrsid plugin on the ubuntugis ppa archive is just what I need, but... I'm not getting it to compile right. I downloaded Lizard Tech's SDK (Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167), and extracted it into /usr/local, then renamed it GeExpress-7.0 (because that's what it was called in the gdal-mrsid-build.in script...hoped that would work, since I wasn't sure how to point to it with apt-get -b). I compiled the examples in the sdk, which worked. I then tried to build the package with apt-get -b source gdal-mrsid, which gave me a package called gdal-mrsid-src_1.6.1-1_all.deb. Installing that with dpkg -i seemed to work, but then r.in.gdal didn't recognize my test sid file, and doesn't list mrsid as a supported format. Does anybody know where I might be going wrong?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks,<br>
Bill Kristan</p></body></html>