[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Alan Boudreault]

That's would be great. :)

Thanks
Alan

Bill Kristan wrote:
> 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
>>>>         


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Alan Boudreault
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