[Qgis-user] Re: Problem with big tiff

[Alex Mandel]

My reply specifically covered QGIS 1.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 from
repositories. Issues due to self compilation are way outside that scope.
For those interested we can discuss them more on the developer list.

Thanks,
Alex

On 05/17/2011 02:13 PM, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> Thanks a lot! Yes you point to two of my problems, I had first problem
> with one of my qgis and another with another qgis:
> 1) The problem I cannot solve is to compile myself qgis 1.7.0rc knowing
> that the gdal I have was upgraded to 1.8.0. Could you please tell me if
> you know how to switch back to get gdal 1.7.0 and compile against it?
> As I wrote earlier, I detailed the error messages and pointed to my
> install script in qgis-developer list, here:
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/gdal-1-8-0-no-tiff-support-anymore-in-Ubuntu-11-04-Natty-tc6365327.html
> 
> 2) The other problem that I somehow solved: I compiled one version a few
> weeks ago against gdal 1.7.0; when updating to gdal 1.8.0, I was
> proposed to remove  gdal 1.7.0, I did it, which broke this qgis (I could
> not find back the right package again; I copied libgdal1.7.0.so.1 from
> another machine which is still on Ubuntu 10.10, this solves the issue)
> 
> Thanks a lot for your support!
> Mayeul
> 
> Le mardi 17 mai 2011 à 13:47 -0700, Alex Mandel a écrit :
> 
>> That error message seems to have some good clues. Did you recently run
>> ubuntu's update tool?
>>
>> I would open synaptic and go the the libtiff package and see which
>> versions are available to you. I wonder if you self compiled or grabbed
>> a gdal version that wasn't from ubuntu or ubuntugis, so check what
>> options you have for the libgdal package.
>>
>> Note: Ubuntugis just pushed QGIS 1.6 built against GDAL 1.8 if you want
>> to try that.
>>
>> I checked both my 32 and 64 bit 10.04 installs and my libtiff is from
>> lucid-updates and is version 3.9.2-2 which works fine with libgdal 1.8
>> or 1.7 from ubuntugis.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> On 05/17/2011 07:13 AM, Hugo wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your comments. Edward, thanks for you directions but i really
>>> need to solve this issue and moreover i really enjoy QGIS/GRASS, and so, i
>>> want to keep up with it. The problem now is that i have several projects
>>> saved that no longer work with raster files (it really doesn't matter what
>>> size they have). When each project starts loading, i can see all the
>>> vectorial files being loaded correctly. But as soon as it gets to load any
>>> type of raster file QGIS just crashes ans shuts down.
>>>
>>> Launching QGIS from the terminal has give me the clue to what is wrong: the
>>> problem is with my libtiff version. I can see that i have libtiff 4.0
>>> installed but QGIS is looking for libtiff3 (exactly what Giovanni has
>>> pointed out).
>>>
>>> Here is the terminal output:
>>> Error:
>>>     GDAL Error 1: WARNING ! libtiff version mismatch : You're linking
>>> against libtiff 3.X but GDAL has been compiled against libtiff >= 4.0.0
>>>
>>> So my question is how can i fix this?
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Hugo
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Giovanni Manghi
>>> <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 12:45 +0100, Hugo wrote:
>>>>> Just to give software context i'm on Ubuntu 10.10 64 bits, using Qgis
>>>>> 1.6 and GDAL 1.7.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Hugo,
>>>>
>>>> here with Ubuntu 10.04 32bit and the ubuntugis repository (qgis 1.6) no
>>>> problems.
>>>>
>>>> I added a bunch of overviews before opening the raster file, in any case
>>>> no crashes.
>>>>
>>>> On the other hand I have problems opening rasters (not only yours) if I
>>>> upgrade to trunk with the nightly builds repository. But this is
>>>> probably caused by a mix of libraries from the standard ubuntu
>>>> repository and the ubuntugis one.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> -- Giovanni --
>>
>>
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