[Qgis-user] Ubuntu: How to add MrSID and ECW support into GDAL

[Micha Silver]

> FYI, I forwarded this exchange to Alan Boudreault (UbuntuGIS
> maintainer), and he indicated that the ldconfig step is not required for
> MrSid since we use a static library (there is no shared lib available
> for MrSid). In the ECW case, the ldonfig step is required, and he made a
> note about this for when we have a real tutorial (for now we only link
> to an email from the list archives).
>
> Thanks for reporting the issue... and as Afustin wrote, this is a wiki,
> so feel free to contribute and improve it.

Thanks, if I get some time, I'll do a "step by step" for ecw, like the sid
wiki entry.
Cheers, Micha

>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> Agustin Lobo wrote:
>> Micha,
>> Those are not my directions, but the "official" directions
>> (which were not available the first time I tried to use these
>> libraries.
>>
>> Maybe you can try to contact the author (signed Bill Kristan)
>> or modify the page, it's a wiki. Anyway, thanks for the
>> tip. We might want to have our own version in the users corner
>> of the qgis pages.
>>
>> Agus
>>
>> Micha Silver wrote:
>>> On 30/11/2009 18:10, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>>>  FYI:
>>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/UserTutorials
>>>>
>>> Hi Agus:
>>> The procedures in the above tutorials went smooth as butter (on Ubuntu
>>> 9.10).
>>> I might suggest one minor addition to the ecw instructions: you need
>>> to run a
>>> sudo ldconfig
>>> after installing the libecw SDK so that gdal finds the new library.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Micha
>>>> Agus
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