[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Bill Kristan]

Hello UbuntuGIS!

I'm pleased to see you're working on packages for open source GIS on Ubuntu. 
I'm a GIS user on Kubuntu Jaunty, and it's great to have a source of up to 
date debs.

I've been trying various ways to import mrsid images into GRASS, and have yet 
to find a linux-only solution (I've successfully exported sids to img files on 
ArcInfo in Windows, then imported them into GRASS, but that's less than ideal 
- Lizard Tech's mrsidgeodecode has small maximum file sizes on all its output 
formats, which has been a problem, and so on). It looks like the gdal-mrsid 
plugin on the ubuntugis ppa archive is just what I need, but... I'm not 
getting it to compile right. I downloaded Lizard Tech's SDK 
(Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167), and extracted it into /usr/local, then renamed it 
GeExpress-7.0 (because that's what it was called in the gdal-mrsid-build.in 
script...hoped that would work, since I wasn't sure how to point to it with 
apt-get -b). I compiled the examples in the sdk, which worked. I then tried to 
build the package with apt-get -b source gdal-mrsid, which gave me a package 
called gdal-mrsid-src_1.6.1-1_all.deb. Installing that with dpkg -i seemed to 
work, but then r.in.gdal didn't recognize my test sid file, and doesn't list 
mrsid as a supported format. Does anybody know where I might be going wrong?

Thanks,
 Bill Kristan
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