[Qgis-developer] Re: Grass rasters render into square in corner

[Steve Halasz]

Hi

On 4/7/06, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> One of the reasons I prefer to use apt only as the source of my QGIS
> deps is to better replicate the general experience our users are going
> to have. Currently both debian stable and ubuntu breezy / dapper only
> offer:
>
> gdal 1.2.6-1

Debian testing has gdal 1.3.1

>
> Which is what I am using. At the moment the experience using
> prepackaged software isnt too great. Compiling QGIS against qt4.1 in
> apt works but crashes on run. Gdal is quite old, and the geos I have
> crashes qgis when I do a select features operation...

Debian testing with geos 2.2.1 from unstable(don't know if geos in
testing works or not) and qgis HEAD works fine and select features
works. I think you'll just need to wait for the goodness to propagate
to Ubuntu. DebianGIS offers backports for stable. Take a look at:
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/debiangis-status.html

Steve

>
> I will write to the various package maintainers and see if they can
> resolve these issues...
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 4/7/06, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > AFAIK QGIS should work correctly with GRASS 6.0.0.
> > I remember vaguely this problem cca 1 year ago but
> > I would say it was a problem in GRASS GDAL driver.
> > Try to update GDAL.
> >
> > Radim
> >
> >
> > On 4/6/06, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Radim & Martin
> > >
> > >
> > > Im still using grass 6.0:
> > >
> > > ii  grass                                  6.0.1-1ubuntu1
> > >          Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
> > > ii  libgdal1-grass                         1.2.6-1build1
> > >          GRASS extension for the Geospatial Data Abst
> > > ii  libgrass                               6.0.1-1ubuntu1
> > >          GRASS GIS development libraries
> > > ii  libgrass-dev                           6.0.1-1ubuntu1
> > >          GRASS GIS library development files
> > >
> > > As I prefer not to use deps except from apt. I remember Radim saying
> > > there was some requirement to have 6.1? Some time ago I encountered
> > > this issue where grass rasters were rendered only to the corner of the
> > > screen:
> > >
> > > http://linux-gis.co.uk/html_old/grass_corner_render.jpg
> > >
> > > Pressing refresh resolved this issue :
> > >
> > > http://linux-gis.co.uk/html_old/grass_corner_render1.jpg
> > >
> > > Is this to do with my grass being too old or is there some other issue
> > > at play here?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Sutton
> > >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Tim Sutton
>
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