[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Bill Kristan]

Thanks for the speedy reply - I never would have figured this out on my own.

You're right, I have the ppa in my sources list. I'm going to try this first 
thing tomorrow morning - if it works maybe I can write it up as a howto (with 
credit to you, of course) for the Ubuntu GIS wiki?

Cheers,
Bill

> 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