[Qgis-user] LAS and LAZ files cannot be opened by this QGIS install.

[Andrea Giudiceandrea]

> bitrat qgis.raro at fastmail.fm
> Mon Jul 29 17:07:15 PDT 2024

> I installed QGIS specifically to view LIDAR data but, when I tried to open a .LAZ file, I got "LAS and LAZ files cannot be opened by this QGIS install."

> I installed on Debian from the instructions here:
> https://www.qgis.org/resources/installation-guide/#debian-ubuntu

Hi bitrat,
for more info, please see the comments at 
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/53348 . Martin Dobias suggested that 
"if you use QGIS packages based on Ubuntugis, PDAL support will be 
included, because the Ubuntugis repository contains PDAL packages as well."

Another possible workaround could be to use Flatpack to install QGIS 
https://qgis.org/resources/installation-guide/#flatpak

Regards.

Andrea