[OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using freeandopensource
software
Tim Sutton
tim at linfiniti.com
Wed Jan 23 06:42:00 EST 2008
Hi Gavin
Thanks for the feedback. Glad its working now!
Regards
Tim
2008/1/23, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za>:
> Thanks Tim, that worked, except for one change:
>
> sudo dpkg -r libqgis1 qgis qgis-grass
>
> Should be:
>
> sudo dpkg -r libqgis1 qgis qgis-plugin-grass
>
>
> Gavin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim Sutton
> Sent: 23 January 2008 12:42 PM
> To: Africa local chapter discussions; Gary Sherman
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using
> freeandopensource software
>
> Hi
>
> Wow. Ok I guess we need to put a note on the download page telling
> users to manually remove old packages before switching to the
> repository. So we need to manually clean out the old stuff I guess.
> Use the following commands with caution as the remove files
> recursively as root - I take no responsibility for data loss... :
>
> Lets first clear everything out and then reinstall only 0.9.1 (it
> should install again from your cache so no more download should be
> required - except for libqgis 0.9.1 which appears to be missing).
>
> sudo dpkg --purge libqgis0
> sudo dpkg -r libqgis1 qgis qgis-grass
>
> dpkg -l |grep qgis
>
> Purge any qgis packages if they appear with rc next to them after
> running the above commands.
>
> Now lets manually check there are no lingering qgis files on your
> filesystem:
>
> sudo rm /usr/lib/libqgis*
> sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/qgis
> sudo rm -rf /usr/share/qgis
> sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/qgis*
>
> Finally reinstall 0.9.1 from apt:
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass
>
>
> Hopefully that will work. Gary can you attach the above as a little
> readme on the download page?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 2008/1/23, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za>:
> > Even though I had 'removed' 0.8 it seems there's some of it left, as
> > well as 0.7! Also, I don't have libqgis1 for 0.9. What's the best way
> to
> > sort this out?
> >
> > gavinf at mtk-srv017:/etc/apache2$ sudo locate libqgis_core.so
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_core.so.1
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_core.so.1.0.0
> > gavinf at mtk-srv017:/etc/apache2$ ls /usr/lib/libqgis_*
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_composer.so.1 /usr/lib/libqgis_gui.so.1
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_raster.so.1
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_composer.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libqgis_gui.so.1.0.0
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_raster.so.1.0.0
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_core.so.1 /usr/lib/libqgis_legend.so.1
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_core.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libqgis_legend.so.1.0.0
> > gavinf at mtk-srv017:/etc/apache2$ dpkg -l |grep qgis
> > rc libqgis0 0.7.4-5ubuntu1
> > QGIS Geographic Information System - shared
> > ii libqgis1 0.8.0-5ubuntu2
> > QGIS Geographic Information System - shared
> > ii qgis 0.9.1-2
> > Geographic Information System (GIS)
> > ii qgis-plugin-grass 0.9.1-2
> > Plugin for accessing GRASS data from QGIS
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > 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 02:36 PM
> > To: Africa local chapter discussions
> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using free
> > andopensource software
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Do you have more that one QGIS installation on that machine?
> >
> > Can you do:
> >
> > sudo updatedb (to update your slocate database)
> > locate libqgis_core.so
> >
> > And paste the results back to me. The libs should have been installed
> > into /usr/lib e.g. on my system:
> >
> > [~] ls /usr/lib/libqgis_*
> > /usr/lib/libqgis_core.so /usr/lib/libqgis_gui.so
> >
> > Above is for QGIS installed via my PPA. If you are on a 64bit machine
> > they could be in /usr/lib64. You should also check you dont have
> > conflicting packages on your machine:
> >
> > [~] dpkg -l |grep qgis
> > ii libqgis1 0.9.1-2
> > QGIS Geographic Information System - shared
> > ii libqgis1-dev 0.9.1-2
> > QGIS Geographic Information System - develop
> > ii qgis 0.9.1-2
> > Geographic Information System (GIS)
> >
> > If you get more matches than that try removing the older ones.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > 2008/1/22, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za>:
> > > Tim, after installing QGis from your PPA, I also installed
> > > qgis-plugin-grass.
> > >
> > > Then I tried to run 'qgis' and got this error:
> > >
> > > qgis: error while loading shared libraries: libqgis_core.so: cannot
> > open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory. Any tips?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > 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>:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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)
> > > >
> > > > From: sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org
> > > > [mailto:sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org] On Behalf Of
> > > > Kate Lance
> > > > Sent: 21 January 2008 02:56 PM
> > > > To: SDI-Africa
> > > > Subject: [SDI-Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and
> > open
> > > > sourcesoftware
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Sutton
> > > QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager
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