[Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:43 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.

looks like this page has been vandalized!

>
> 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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