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

[Mauricio Zambrano]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:12 +0200, Micha Silver wrote:
> Hi Volker:
> 
> The compile of GRASS on a fresh install of Scientific Linux 6 was quite 
> painless. All dependencies were available from EPEL. Which leads me to 
> believe that making an RPM should also be smooth. I see that on Fedora 
> the GRASS rpms are divided into two: grass and grass-libs (actually 
> there's also grass-devel, of course). I don't know how to do this. With 
> some guidance I'd be willing to try to build a set of rpms.
> 
> Trying to get QGIS to work on RHEL5 will, as you probably know, be a 
> constant uphill battle. With all the new python 2.6 requirements it 
> means constantly jumping thru hoops just to get it to work. 

Yes, I've been struggling a lot to get Qgis to work with RHEL5 (I mean,
with full gdal support and with some plugins), and without this mailing
list probably now I would be using windows at work.

> THen, a week 
> later some new plugin for QGIS will come out, which needs another new 
> python package which will also not be available... I'm not sure the 
> effort would be worth it. RHEL 6 is now what people will be using for 
> desktops, with SL-6 already out, and CentOS-6 probably quite near...

I fully agree.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Micha

Kinds,

Mauricio
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/30/2011 06:41 PM, Volker Fröhlich wrote:
> 
> > I'm planning to put QGIS into EPEL, but haven't done so, since we're missing
> > Grass there. Sadly the maintainer disappeared several months ago. Maybe I'll
> > build one without Grass support for 1.7. I might have to take the ownership of
> > GDAL as well, but I don't have a lot of time and there are still several
> > glitches in the GDAL packages.
> >
> > Volker
> >
> > See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS#Missing_dependencies_in_EPEL
> >
> > Am Mittwoch 30 März 2011, 10:40:14 schrieb Mauricio Zambrano:
> >> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 09:39 +0200, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> >>>> BTW, do you know if ELGIS repository  will be available for RHEL6 ?
> >>> ELGIS will be available for ELGIS, but the plan is to have more
> >>> packages maintained by EPEL for EL 6 (there are already quite a few
> >>> there).
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> I saw that gdal-1.7.2-1.el6.i686 and proj-4.7.0-1.el6.i686 are already
> >> there.
> >>
> >> Do you know if Qgis is one of the packages that should pass to EPEL  ?
> >>
> >> I'm curious about this because I need to migrate the machine I'm using
> >> at work from RHEL5 to RHEL6, but I can not try this until gdal, proj,
> >> qgis (and hopefully grass) will be available for RHEL6.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Mauricio
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