[El] RHEL5: Problem with Qgis 1.6.0 and some python-dependant plugins

[Volker Fröhlich]

Could it be, you're missing gdal-python? Gdal-python provides the osgeo 
module.

Volker

Am Montag 28 März 2011, 15:06:26 schrieb Mauricio Zambrano:
> Dear list,
> 
> While trying to install the '1-band raster Colour Table v1.x' plugin for
> Qgis 1.6.0, I got the following error message:
> 
> 
> "You need to install the following python module in order to enable it:
> numpy"
> 
> but I already had the 'numpy' library installed on my system, along with
> both python 2.4 and python 2.6.
> 
> This problem is reported, with as much detail as I could, in the
> following thread:
> 
> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8214.
> 
> 
> About my Qgis version:
> 
> qgis-python-1.6.0-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Python integration and plugins
> for Quantum GIS
> Repo        : elgis-plus-testing
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/qgis
> 
> 
> 
> qgis-1.6.0-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : A user friendly Open Source Geographic
> Information System
> Repo        : elgis-plus-testing
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/bin/qgis
> Other       : qgis = 1.6.0-3_0.el5.elgis
> Filename    : /usr/share/qgis
> Filename    : /usr/lib/qgis
> 
> 
> 
> qgis-1.6.0-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : A user friendly Open Source Geographic
> Information System
> Repo        : installed
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/bin/qgis
> 
> 
> After a while, I realised that the real problem was that some Qgis
> plugins only detect python 2.4 and its associated libraries.
> 
> For example, this morning the IT manager of my unit installed numpy for
> the python2.6 version of my system (at that moment I realised that numpy
> needs to be installed for each python version present in the system),
> and the numpy error message (at the beginning of this e-mail)
> disappeared.
> 
> However, I got this new error message:
> 
> "You need to install the following python module in order to enable it:
> osgeo"
> 
> and in another thread
> (http://www.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2008-August/017923.html)
> somebody guessed that the problem was that the "path where gdal library
> was installed is not available to loader"
> 
> and suggested trying this:
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> I tried it, but I'm still getting the same error.
> 
> Here is the messages that I got form the console while launching Qgis:
> 
> 
> $ qgis&
> [1] 25819
> $ Python support ENABLED :-)
> Loaded : __error__ (package: bcccoltbl1)
> Loaded : manageR (package: manageR)
> Loaded : SRTM elevation importer for Qgis (package: qgissrtm)
> Loaded : Elevation (package: elevation)
> Loaded : Value Tool (package: valuetool)
> Loaded : Geoprocessing (package: geoprocessing)
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/qgis/utils.py:279: DeprecationWarning: the
> sets module is deprecated mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals,
> fromlist, level)
> Loaded : fTools (package: fTools)
> Loaded : Watermark Plugin (package: watermark)
> Loaded : EasyPrint (package: easyprint)
> Loaded : TopoColour (package: topocolour)
> Loaded : DumpLoadField (package: dumpfield)
> Loaded : Plugin Installer (package: plugin_installer)
> Warning: QHttp: empty path requested is invalid -- using '/'
> 
> 
> About my libgdal.so:
> 
> $sudo yum provides *libgdal.so
> [sudo] password for zambrhe:
> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
> gdal-devel-1.7.2-5_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL
> file
> 
>                                     : format library
> 
> Repo        : elgis
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> gdal-devel-1.7.3-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL
> file
> 
>                                     : format library
> 
> Repo        : elgis-testing
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> gdal-devel-1.7.2-5_2.el5.elgis.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL
> file
> 
>                                     : format library
> 
> Repo        : elgis-testing
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> gdal-devel-1.7.2-5_1.el5.elgis.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL
> file
> 
>                                     : format library
> 
> Repo        : elgis-testing
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> gdal-devel-1.7.3-1_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL
> file
> 
>                                     : format library
> 
> Repo        : elgis-testing
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> ogdi-3.2.0-0.12.beta2.el5.i386 : Open Geographic Datastore Interface
> Repo        : epel
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/ogdi/libgdal.so
> Other       : libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> gdal-devel-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL file
> format
> 
>                             : library
> 
> Repo        : epel
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> ogdi-3.2.0-0.12.beta2.el5.i386 : Open Geographic Datastore Interface
> Repo        : installed
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/ogdi/libgdal.so
> Other       : libgdal.so
> 
> 
> 
> gdal-devel-1.7.3-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development Libraries for the GDAL
> file
> 
>                                     : format library
> 
> Repo        : installed
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/libgdal.so
> 
> 
> I would really appreciate any help about how to make Qgis may install the
> '1-band raster Colour Table v1.x' plugin, or how to make that Qgis may
> detect the gdal version of my system.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mauricio