[Qgis-user] ERMapper files

[Giovanni Manghi]

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 16:29 +0100, Pierre Chevalier Géologue wrote:
> What about opening .ecw files on qgis on a Linux platform? Some time
> ago, I managed to do it, after compiling quite a few things, gdal with
> some options, all this due to licences issues, if I remember well.
> 
> Apparently, .ecw files can still not be opened by my qgis (r12681): does
> anyone know if there are any plans to try to overcome these issues, in
> the future?

If you use the ubuntugis ppa repository

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/2009-June/000054.html

cheers

-- Giovanni --