[Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?

[Alex Mandel]

In fact it's been done for you already
http://live.osgeo.org

The whole stack installed and setup together on a linux box. FYI the
scripts used to do all the installing are available if you want to pick
and choose what to install and it's all based on Ubunutu/Xubuntu so any
variant of those will work.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 05/01/2012 03:36 AM, António M. Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A quick question concerning QGIS (and other software - GRASS, R ...) on
> Linux.
> 
> I have a MAC but at work I am thinking a getting a new machine, running
> Linux. After browsing the net for optional distributions, I came across
> ArchLinux. It immediately caught my attention with the phrase "A simple,
> lightweight distribution".
> 
> The question is: the fact that it is "so lightweight", does it mean it will
> be painstakingly hard to get every bits together in order to have all
> frameworks, all dependencies, etc, working in order to have a fully working
> GIS workstation (QGIS, GRASS, R, ...)?
> 
> Thanks.
> Regards,
> António
> 
> ----------
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:06:27 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>> Lee,
>>
>> 2012/4/29 Lee Hachadoorian <Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com>:
>>> Agustin,
>>>
>>> I suppose it depends on what you don't like about Ubuntu. I also use
> 10.04,
>>> and am planning on upgrading to 12.04 but keeping the GNOME desktop
>>> environment.
>>
>> Ii think you'll be disapointed...
>>
>> But if you're looking to get away from Ubuntu, what about the
>>> OSGeo-Live distro? It's based on Xubuntu and comes pre-loaded with QGIS
> and
>>> a bunch of other GIS software, as well as other goodies like R. I've
> used it
>>> occasionally to test some of the applications that aren't in the regular
>>> Ubuntu repos.
>> That's a good way to get introduced to the different OSGeo applications,
> but
>> does not solve my problem.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Agus
>>
>>> Best,
>>> --Lee
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
> Hi Agus!
> 
> I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now
> and I am very satisfied with it.
> Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too
> much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something I
> use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as plain
> debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are a
> bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE
> based on debian testing ..
> I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything
> you want to do..
> So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take
> linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity -
> but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, with
> newer software from mint..
> (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I
> am really satisfied with it)
> just my 2¢
> 
> kind regards
> Werner
>>>>