[Qgis-user] qgis & mrsid used to work

[M S]

Is there a way to query which GDAL version QGIS 1.3.0 binary was built
against?  I have one working with MRSID (64bit) and one not (32bit).
I thought both had come from ubuntugis/unstable.

Thanks,
Mark

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, M S <mseibel at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is odd, is as of last friday, I had both QGIS Mimas and GDAL1.6.0
> installed and working with mrsid, on 64bit Karmic and 32bit Karmic.
>
> This morning an update was applied for qgis and grass, and mrsid with
> QGIS stopped working on the 64bit platform.  Interestingly, on 32bit
> Karmic, my QGIS is still working with GDAL 1.6.0 and MRSID.
>
> As a user, I dont fully understand the packaging and linking.  Does
> this page indicate there are Karmic qgis, grass and gdal packages?
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable   looks
> like the qgis-karmic was updated 20 hours ago if I understand that
> correctly.
>
> Initially, I had qgis/stable PPA and ubuntugis/unstable PPA in the
> sources.list, so perhaps I goofed something up.
>
> Thanks much for the help and information.
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On Mon, 02. Nov 2009 at 13:29:31 -0500, M S wrote:
>>> I had a working QGIS and Mr SID, but just did an update to Karmic
>>> which installed new qgis and grass (same versions?) and subsequently
>>> broke the mr sid relationship (I cant add MR SIDs to QGIS).
>>
>> ubuntugis doesn't support karmic, but has GDAL 1.6 and qgis therein is build
>> with it.
>>
>> The qgis repository has a karmic version, but is build against plain ubuntu and
>> therefore only supports the version in plain ubuntu (AFAIK 1.5).
>>
>> You should not mix both.
>>
>> So to my knowledge you can't currently have QGIS with GDAL 1.6 on karmic unless
>> you build GDAL and QGIS (packages) yourself.
>>
>>
>> Jürgen
>>
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