[Qgis-user] gdal_merge - GDAL Tools plugin Qgis error message

[sergio sevillano]

El 14/09/2010, a las 17:13, William Kyngesburye escribió:

> On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:55 AM, sergio sevillano wrote:
> 
>> El 14/09/2010, a las 14:52, William Kyngesburye escribió:
>> 
>>> Are you using the standalone Qgis?
>>> 
>> 
>> i have installed frameworks and qgis manually from
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis
>> but not sure if its standalone or not 
>> is there a way i can check?
> 
> Only by size (Get Info): standalone is about 290+MB installed, standard is about 214MB.

my qgis.app is 214Mb, so is standard too

> 
>>> What other GDAL tools have you used that work, besides gdal_contour?  gdal_merge itself is a python program, while gdal_contour is a binary.  It seems that an external python script is having problems finding python
>>> 
>> 
>> other .py won´t work either
>> 
> 
> I get this also.  I'm using the standard Qgis.
> 
> My guess is that external python scripts aren't getting a shell environment so they can't find python, even though Qgis extensions run thru python.  Those GDAL python scripts all have the standard shebang:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> Someone with a better understanding of this needs to comment so I can try to figure out why the Mac build is not working (while from lack of reported problems it seems other systems work).