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

[Gavin Fleming]

Thanks Tim

I've just done that and you need to remove the : after deb

I firstly apt-get removed qgis 0.8, hope that was the right thing to
do..

Gavin


-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim Sutton
Sent: 22 January 2008 12:19 PM
To: Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and
opensource software

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packages he refers to are out of date.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
> applications:
>  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
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> know how you got on with it)
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> Kate Lance
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>  Subject: [SDI-Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and open
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