[OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and open source software

[Gavin Fleming]

building a GIS workstation using free and open source software

-- see Matt Perry's blog - Turning Ubuntu into a GIS workstation  

http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=10

The instructions take Ubuntu 7.10 and add the following desktop GIS
applications:
Postgresql/PostGIS : a relational database with vector spatial data
handling 
GRASS : A full blown GIS analysis toolset 
Quantum GIS: A user-friendly graphical GIS application 
GDAL, Proj, Geos : Libraries and utilities for processing spatial data 
Mapserver : web mapping program and utilites 
Python bindings for QGIS, mapserver and GDAL 
GPSBabel : for converting between various GPS formats 
R : a high-end statistics package with spatial capabilities 
GMT : the Generic Mapping Tools for automated high-quality map output 
 

(If some on this list try following the instructions, please let the
list know how you got on with it)

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