[Ubuntu] Re: [Qgis-user] qgis & mrsid used to work

[Alex Mandel]

That to me sounds like you've got the QGIS repos and the UbuntuGIS
repos. UbuntuGIS should be pulling 1.6.x I will double check with them,
since I do recall in some recent past versions there being an error in
the dependency list that still had 1.5 for QGIS.

Alex

M S wrote:
> gdalinfo --version returns GDAL 1.6.2
> 
> if I do 'sudo apt-get remove gdal1-1.5.0' it wants to remove all this:
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>   proj libgdal1-1.6.0-grass
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libgdal1-1.5.0 libqgis1.3.0 python-qgis python-qgis-common qgis
> qgis-common qgis-plugin-grass qgis-plugin-grass-common
> 
> 
> And if I 'apt-get install qgis', it wants to put gdal 1.5.0 back.
> 
> Is there something with the ubuntugis/unstable repo perhaps?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> M S wrote:
>>> I had a working QGIS and Mr SID, but just did an update to Karmic
>>> which installed new qgis and grass (same versions?) and subsequently
>>> broke the mr sid relationship (I cant add MR SIDs to QGIS).
>>>
>>> I am using this site to install
>>> http://n2.nabble.com/Directions-to-get-mrsid-support-in-GQIS-and-other-packages-using-gdal-on-Ubuntu-td3169342.html
>>>
>>> Everything seems fine with the creation of gdal_MrSID.so.
>>>
>>> gdal_GRASS.so, gdal_MrSID.so and ogr_GRASS.so are all in the
>>> /usr/lib/gdal16plugins directory.  nothing is in the
>>> /usr/lib/gdal15plugins directory.
>>>
>>> I notice that libgdal1.5 gets installed from the ubuntu repo, while
>>> additionally libgdal1.6 gets installed from the ubuntugis directory.
>>> (?)
>>>
>>> gdalinfo --formats lists MR SID as a recognized format, but QGIS
>>> doesnt have it in the list nor recognizes it as  GDAL raster.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>> Which gdalinfo are you using. Good chance you installed it for libgdal
>> 1.5 instead of 1.6. Try removing all the 1.5 stuff and redo the MRSID
>> install.
>>
>> Alex
>>
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