[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Alan Boudreault]

Just to be sure.... My last email assume that you have the UbuntuGIS entry in 
your sources.list to get UbuntuGIS packages available with apt-get. Otherwise, 
check the following site to know what entry to add in your sources.list: 

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable

Alan

On June 3, 2009 04:03:30 pm Alan Boudreault wrote:
> 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
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