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

[Alex Mandel]

A good, that additional information should help us figure out what's
going on.

Thanks,
Alex

M S wrote:
> Great, thanks.  This may only be on the 64bit platform, as I did the
> same update this morning on a Karmic 32bit system, and the MRSID still
> works.
> 
> Originally I installed karmic 64bit, then updated all.  Then I added
> the qgis/stable and ubuntugis/unstable, and wound up with a qgis
> installation that wouldnt work with mr sid. (the gdal1.5.0 issue
> perhaps?)
> 
> When I took out the qgis/stable, and only used ubuntugis/unstable, I
> did get a qgis that could use SIDs.  It looks like last night there
> was an update to the ubuntugis?  and when i updated/upgraded, then the
> mrsid didnt work on Karmic 64bit.
> 
> Interestingly, I upgraded on Karmic qgis and grass (same versions
> though?) this morning also on karmic 32bit, and mrsid still worked.
> 
> Much thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> 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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