Where did QGIS go?

[domzo]

To clarify, if I do a wget on the Packages.gz archive then that works however it does not unzip correctly on my machine. So perhaps it is a problem with that file?

(or it could still be a problem with my machine.. I'm still investigating)

[jdb]

It worked fine for me, I'm running 32 bit hardy so I don't know about 64 bit.
The file I got was qgis_0.10.0-6~hardy_i386.deb and the checksum on it is:

sum qgis_0.10.0-6~hardy_i386.deb
63149 8316

jdb

[domzo]

Thanks for the info. I still haven't got it to work here - very odd..

[rogerdean]

I've downloaded QGIS from

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qgis/ubuntu hardy main

and all the dependencies that this pulled in from Ubuntu repos. However when I try to launch (from terminal - there's no icon set up) I get a Python error -

"Couldn't load SIP module
Python support will be disabled"

Then QGIS loads, although I've not tested functionality yet. Is this a problem? What could I do to make QGIS happy? And will we get a complete and trouble-free version?

Allbest
Roger

[jdb]

I've downloaded QGIS from

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qgis/ubuntu hardy main

and all the dependencies that this pulled in from Ubuntu repos. However when I try to launch (from terminal - there's no icon set up) I get a Python error -

"Couldn't load SIP module
Python support will be disabled"

Then QGIS loads, although I've not tested functionality yet. Is this a problem? What could I do to make QGIS happy? And will we get a complete and trouble-free version?

Allbest
Roger

Install these & you should be OK.

python-sip4
- Python/C++ bindings generator runtime library
- qgis needs this to start without errors
python-qt4
- Python bindings for Qt4
- qgis needs this to start without errors

jdb

[sawjew]

I have installed Qgis from the ppa but the grass plugin doesn't work. Grass works on its own but when I start qgis from the terminal I get "ERROR 1: libgrass_I.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and the Grass plugin doesn't appear in Qgis.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[roderikk]

Notwithstanding all the troubles you have to install it above, but why was QGIS removed?

And has anybody installed it on Intrepid?

[sawjew]

I have tried to install it on Intrepid using this PPA repository,

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mixo-mixo/ubuntu intrepid main

but I get a segmentation fault when I try to use it.

[maphew]

I have installed Qgis from the ppa but the grass plugin doesn't work. Grass works on its own but when I start qgis from the terminal I get "ERROR 1: libgrass_I.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and the Grass plugin doesn't appear in Qgis.

Does anyone have any ideas?

The following made that particular error go away for me: create a text file called libgrass.conf in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, containing:

#Make libgrass_I.so visible to ld.so
/usr/lib/grass/lib

Then issue the following command:

sudo ldconfig

-- Copied from http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/GRASS_6_on_Ubuntu

I can't issue some grass commands like r.in.gdal for some as yet unknown reason -- "warning: cannot read module description(r.in.gdal)" -- though r.out.gdal.tiff works fine.

[tfogwill]

@sawjew:
glad to see you're using our PPA and trying out our packages - we're working hard to get qgis working in intrepid. Please keep testing the packages at:
https://launchpad.net/~scubuntu-dev/+archive
and
https://launchpad.net/~mixo-mixo/+archive

See more about what we're trying to do at
http://scubuntu.meraka.org.za/wiki/

Regards
Thomas