[Live-demo] Iris draft installer

[Ian Edwards]

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
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