[Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?

[Hugo]

Thanks Alex.
Cheers,

Hugo

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:

> OSGeo Live maintains an svn repo:
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/
>
> The bin folder has the scripts, other folders have supporting files.
>
> See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc for more details about the
> build process.
>
> Enjoy,
> Alex
>
> On 05/02/2012 12:36 PM, Hugo wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Just out of curiosity where would those scripts be downloadable??? I've
> > been trying to find them but didn't get them.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Hugo
> >
> > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>>>>>
>
>
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Hugo Martins
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