[Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.8.2 for RHEL/EPEL 7

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 06/10/2015 11:51 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 10-06-15 06:58, Dave Johansen wrote:
>> I just built QGIS 2.8.2 for RHEL/EPEL 7 (
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9997800 ) and it is
>> available in the testing repo (
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qgis-2.8.2-1.el7 ). I built it
>> without PyQwt because it doesn't support Qwt 6 (
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2014-December/036112.html ),
>> so I'm sure that some functionality is disabled and/or won't work but
>> the main application is available for testing.
> Hi Dave et al,
>
> Thanks, can you maybe also let us know how you would add this repo, so
> we can maybe update the instructions?
>
>
> To me it looks like the instructions here:
>
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#rhel-centos-scientific-linux
>
> are not working anymore for recent versions of RHEL/CentSO, but please
> correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>
> I'm not sure if we have an official 'maintainer' of QGIS for the
> RedHat/.rpm based distro's currently.
>
> For the sake of the project I think it is good if we have working
> instructions for rpm based distro's.
>
> >From Alex I understood that Angelos is maintaining a build server, which
> maybe also able to build rpm's?
> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_cross_distribution_howto
>
> We should maybe also tell people if is too hard/impossible to install
> QGIS or QGIS-server on a RHEL/CentOS version (as I understand on RHEL5.5
> it's not doable because of a lack of certain Qt libs)..
>
> Anyway: just bringing some people together hoping we can get better
> installs and install instructions for rpm's :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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Hi all,

QGIS rpms are maintained here:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Application:Geo
Unfortunately RHEL support was dropped during a cleanup some months ago, 
but if it required, we can re-enable it.

Best,
Angelos



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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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