[Qgis-developer] [QGIS 2.5.0 MASTER][Linux Mint 64-bit] - Missing Oracle Spatial icon?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Richard,

On Mon, 20. Oct 2014 at 21:26:28 +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> for Windows I know the Oracle provider is part of the osgeo4w install
> (and I think also in the standalone installer, but not 100% sure).

It is.
 
> Only if you have this Oracle spatial provider included you will see the
> little blue oval meaning the Oracle provider is available.

> Most linux repositories do not have the Oracle provider in their QGIS
> binaries, probably because of license troubles.

> Some time ago with some help of Martin I was able to build QGIS on
> Debian with Oracle Spatial provider.

You can also build packages for the "sid-oracle" distribution[1] - that'll
require a oracle-instantclient11.2-devel package (made with alien from the
oracle download you described) and include a qgis-oracle-provider debian
package in the build.


Jürgen

[1] http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc11

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