[Qgis-user] [Ubuntu] MrSID for QGIS 1.8 in Ubuntu Precise

[Nathan Woodrow]

I don't think OSGeo4W is update to date just yet.  You can follow this
method here: http://www.faunalia.com/content/adding-ecw-support-quantum-gis

- Nathan


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:

>  Thanks, Nathan
> Rerunning the OSGeo4W installer I see only gdal16-ecw, gdal16-mrsid and
> and gdal17-ecw, gdal17-mrsid. But the currently installed gdal is 1.9 and
> no ecw or mrsid libraries for this version.
> Am I missing something?
>
> Cheers,
> Micha
>
>
> On 23/05/2013 12:32, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>
>  No we haven't lost support for those. We never really did it was just
> some uncertainity around license but those have been sorted now.
>
> Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo
>  ------------------------------
> From: Micha Silver
> Sent: 23/05/2013 7:25 PM
> To: Bernd Vogelgesang
> Cc: Agustin.Lobo at ictja.csic.es; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] [Ubuntu] MrSID for QGIS 1.8 in Ubuntu Precise
>
> On 23/05/2013 11:30, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote:
>
> Hi Agustin,
>
> nope, no answer.
> Actually my very disappointing workaround was, to install VirtualBox and
> Windows on it and run QGIS from there.
>
>
> Sorry to butt in, how does running QGIS on a windows VM help the problem
> with MrSid and ECW? AFAIK, we've lost support for those formats now on
> windows also.
>
> Thanks,
> Micha
>
> On native Linux, i only use the debian-nightly master for playing around
> (or better: watching it crash).
>
> Cheers
> Bernd
>
> Am 23.05.2013, 08:35 Uhr, schrieb Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com><alobolistas at gmail.com>:
>
>
> Bernd,
> Did you ever got an answer?
> Thanks
> Agus
>
>
> --
> Micha Silver
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> 052-3665918http://www.surfaces.co.il
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> Micha Silver
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