[Live-demo] Iris draft installer

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

FYI the current nightly build already has Iris installed:
http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-debug-build10230-i386.iso
http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-debug-build10230-i386-log.tar.gz

Cheers,
Angelos

On 06/26/2013 10:48 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
> I'll update the script tomorrow and then run through those two quickstarts
> and send feedback.
>
> Many thanks for the guidance,
>
> Ian
> On 26 Jun 2013 20:42, "Angelos Tzotsos" <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   Hi Ian,
>>
>> Thanks for the information.
>> Yes, it would be great to update the Iris install script to use this ppa.
>>
>> Regarding QGIS and Sahana, we need to run through the quickstarts and
>> check if those can be completed without errors.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 06/24/2013 05:43 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Ed Campbell has packaged up Iris and dependencies so that it can be
>> installed from apt-get:
>>
>> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:drescampbell/ppa
>> sudo apt-get install python-iris
>> Does this help with some of the dependency problems?  If yes, should we go
>> ahead and update the Iris install script to install from apt-get instead?
>>
>> To what extent should I test with QGIS and Sahana? I haven't seen any
>> problems (including with plugins) in QGIS, but presumably I need to install
>> a plugin that utilises matplotlib now that the system version is at 1.2.0.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   Ian wrote:
>>
>>   We've submitted an installer for the Iris library:
>>
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>>   We've updated Matplotlib to version 1.2.0 (previously it
>> was at 1.1.1rc1) will this cause problems for anyone?
>>
>>
>> yes, probably. at least QGIS and Sahana are installing and
>> using the system's matplotlib, most likely others too.
>> which one gets picked up probably depends on the list
>> ordering in PYTHONPATH.
>>
>> if you absolutely positively need the newer version, and can't
>> find a way to work around it, please grab the newer package
>> from raring and rebuild it for 12.04 LTS (not hard, just
>> ask if you need a hand with that)http://packages.ubuntu.com/python-matplotlib
>>
>>
>> and then test that it doesn't break qgis, sahana,
>> etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>   There are also a few other dependencies added.
>>
>>
>> as per earlier email, please make them into .debs.
>> It's easy and it helps catch when two projects
>> try to install different versions of the same package
>> or try to install files over the top of each other.
>> also it means there is no -dev package mess to clean up.
>> again, happy to help if you get stuck with it, and we
>> have a dir for such things at download.osgeo.org if
>> you need a place to store them online.
>>
>>
>> ... avoiding stepping on each other's toes takes a bit
>> of effort and discipline seeing that many of us are using
>> the same tools.
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Hamish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Angelos Tzotsos
>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>> National Technical University of Athenshttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>
>>


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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos