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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All

Please note that Perry wrote that article some time ago and the
packages he refers to are out of date. Since then I have created an
Ubuntu PPA (personal package archive) for QGIS so all you need to do
(assuming you are running Gutsy) is to add:

deb: http://ppa.launchpad.net/timlinux/ubuntu gutsy main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get update; apt-get install
qgis. Updates to QGIS will automatically be downloaded and installed
after doing that using the standard Ubuntu update-manager along with
general Ubuntu updates.

Regards

Tim

2008/1/22, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za>:
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> building a GIS workstation using free and open source software
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> -- see Matt Perry's blog - Turning Ubuntu into a GIS workstation
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> http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=10
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> The instructions take Ubuntu 7.10 and add the following desktop GIS
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>  Postgresql/PostGIS : a relational database with vector spatial data
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>  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
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> (If some on this list try following the instructions, please let the list
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