[Qgis-user] After fresh compilation under Ubuntu Hardy error "Couldn't load PyQGIS"

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 10:17 +0200, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Nikos Alexandris pisze:
> 
> > Tim, thank you for your concern. Finally I installed the ubuntu packages
> > python-qgis (as Alex Mandel recommended) along with the
> > libgdal(someversion) and it worked. Still I would like to know if it is
> > possible to avoid installing any gdal-package from the ubuntu
> > repositories as I want to avoid any conflicts between custom
> > installations from source and utilities installed from the repo's.
> 
> Nikos,
> 
> If you install something from source, you better build all dependent
> software from source too. Otherwise it's hard to avoid multiple version
> instalations, versions conflicts, linking issues and it's much harder to
> find out if some strange error you currently witness is due to those, or
> a real bug in the software.
> 
> So if you need GDAL from source, build GRASS, GDAL-GRASS plugin and QGIS
> (and whatever else) from source too.
> 
> Maciek

Maciek,

this is my strategy the last months. Anyhow, I still need to clarify
some linking issues with libs. Thanks, Nikos