[Qgis-developer] Side by side install on Ubuntu.

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Jeremy

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jeremy Palmer <JPalmer at linz.govt.nz> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running QGIS 1.8 from installed package on Ubuntu 11.04, as well as trying to build and run dev master from a custom installed directory e.g /home/user/dev/qgis-install. Version 1.8 seems to run well and I can compile and install the master version. However running master (directly calling the qgis binary) causes me issues in a few cases:
>
> 1/ Fatal: ASSERT: "myResult == 0" in file /home/jpalmer/Dev/qgis/Quantum-GIS/src/app/qgsoptions.cpp, line 999. I read that this is due to other versions of the qgis core lib being present i.e 1.8 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-February/018375.html
>
> 2/ Some python plugins do not load. e.g Couldn't load plugin cadtools due an error when calling its classFactory(). Or pgversion: NameError: name 'localePath' is not defined
>
> 3/ Plugin installer does not see any of my installed plugins and won't let me download and install new plugins.
>

Have you tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to e.g.
/home/user/dev/qgis-install/lib before launching master?

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/dev/qgis-install/lib
/home/user/dev/qgis-install/bin/qgis &

Regards

Tim


> Is there some sort of environment setup or qgis runtime config I have forgotten to do to make this stuff work?
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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