[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Alan Boudreault]

Hi Bill,

Here's the procedure that you have to do to build mrsid plugin:

1- apt-get update (just to be sure that you get the lastest UbuntuGIS packages 
list)

2- apt-get install gdal-mrsid-src

3- apt-get install gdal-bin (we'll use the utility gdalinfo to check if the 
plugin is properly installed)

4- Run gdalinfo: gdalinfo --formats | grep -i mrsid  (at this point... you 
should not see any output because the plugin is not installed)

5- Download and extract the Lizard GeoSDK.

6- Build and install the plugin: gdal-mrsid-build 
/usr/local/Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167 (this is an example path... you can use any 
path you want.. just pass it to gdal-mrsid-build in argument)

7- Re-Run gdalinfo: gdalinfo --formats | grep -i mrsid  (now, you should see 
the MrSID plugin entry)


Let me know if all is ok.

Regards,
Alan

On June 3, 2009 03:40:55 pm Bill Kristan wrote:
> 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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Alan Boudreault
Mapgears
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