[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Bill Kristan]

Hi all,

I haven't had a chance to try out the R integration yet, but I tried out gdal-
mrsid-build on my home computer (which is an AMD 64 platform), on kubuntu 
jaunty, and it worked like a charm. I tried the following:

gdal_translate on one of the example files distributed with LizardTech's SDK
r.in.gdal through the GRASS plugin in qgis
r.in.gdal through GRASS
Display and query (using the identify features tool) of mrsid files in qgis
Extraction of mrsid pixel values to a point file using the point sampling tool 
plugin

So, basically, everything I've tried is working as expected on my amd64 system 
for mrsid.

I tried to open one of the jpeg2000 files included in the SDK, and that crashed 
qgis, with another "undefined symbol" error:

/usr/bin/qgis.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gdal16plugins/gdal_MrSID.so: 
undefined symbol: _ZN14jp2_family_src4openEP21kdu_compressed_source

I'll try out the R integration tomorrow and see if it works for me.

I'd really like to be as helpful as possible to this effort - unfortunately I'm 
going to be out of town with just a little netbook to work from for about a 
month starting later this week. When I get back I'll be contacting the list 
for suggestions about how to help out (such as, would it be useful to have a 
VM set up with 8.04 on it so I can test the repositories against that version 
of Ubuntu?). I can work on some howto's for the Wiki right away. It's pretty 
exciting how much functionality has appeared all of a sudden on this platform!

Cheers,
Bill

On Sunday 07 June 2009 12:43:58 am Agustin Lobo wrote:
> ok, but note that it's not working for ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which
> worries me a lot. Hopefully Alan will find the problem. Anyway,
> this is a really important step. Might seem impossible to a
> developer, but a gis package not able of displaying mrsid
> and ecw imagery cannot be considered a professional tool.
>
> Alan, let me know if there's anything I could do, although
> I'll  be away of my office most of next week.
>
> Agus
>
> Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> > Hi Agus,
> >
> > On Sat, 06. Jun 2009 at 21:11:47 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> >> and qgis binary downloaded from Jürgen Fisher server also displays the
> >> sid imagery fine.
> >
> > Thanks for the confirmation.
> > I've just copied the packages to the ubuntugis-unstable ppa.
> >
> >
> > Jürgen