[Ubuntu] Adding saga 2.1.0 to ubuntugis

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Sep 30 23:36:28 PDT 2013


On 09/30/2013 11:32 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to add saga 2.1.0 to ubuntugis. This would solve the
> problem for those users who would like to run qgis 2.0 with the last
> version of saga (which actually is a bug in gdal). See eg [1].
> 
> The package already exists and has been tested by quite a number of
> users on my ppa[2], and it is part of the osgeo live dvd.
> 
> The problem is that saga relies on a new version of wxwidgets (2.9)
> which may break building grass gis if it is just added to the ppa.
> This can be solved by renaming the package wx-common to eg
> wx-common-29 and making it conflict with wx-common. That way all
> existing wx-widgets programs will still work and build fine unless a
> build-dependency is made to wx-common-29.
> Anyone opposed to this solution? If needed I can first upload
> everything to testing to make sure it really works.
> 
> Johan
> 
> [1] http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72957/installing-qgis-2-0-and-saga-2-1-on-ubuntu-13-04
> [2]https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+archive/saga-gis
> _______________________________________________


Uploading to Ubuntugis-testing sounds like a good plan.

Thanks,
Alex



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