GIS Packages

Snowman · 2005-06-13 15:24:04

iBertus wrote:

okay, so I get massive link errors when trying to build qgis. seems that gdal needs sqlite and the whole thing needs one other library I haven't traced down yet.

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/soft … index.html
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.gz

Maybe there's a configure option not to support netcdf file format.

dtw · 2005-06-13 15:50:55

i missed the netcdf dep in the qgis pkgbuild - it is all ok - i just screwed the PKGBUILDs up a bit - it got VERY confusing! they have all the correct deps in them now - i just need to rebuild loads of them

Snowman · 2005-06-13 16:50:35

8) The previous posts were not too clear whether it was solved or not (that's why I posted ).

iBertus · 2005-06-13 17:33:33

It takes awhile to build some of these packages so it may be awhile before new PKGBUILDs are posted.

dtw · 2005-06-13 21:45:24

iBertus - sorry I thought I'd made it clear that knew where all the issues are! They've all been namcaped now and I have finished the details in the PKGBUILDs - I have fixed the grass libs issue with an install script.

I know just have to build grass and qgis again and they are all finished AFAIK

If you do still put the PKGBUILDs together i'd be keen to see how you have done it and how different they are.

dtw · 2005-06-13 23:23:55

grass and qgis have been built again and re-namcaped and are clean except some "W: Dependency included but already satisfied" stuff which is not so bad and not worth an immediate rebuild!

Not actually sure what those warnings mean to be honest but they are only warnings

All should be ok now

Thanks for testing bertus

dtw · 2005-06-13 23:41:49

all important grass scripts are now in /usr/lib/grass-6.0.0/scripts

what does that mean, bertus? yup teh scripts are there, do you think they would be better somewhere else? That is the default grass installation format and i used the location I have seen other distros use - but if you have a comment I'd really like to hear it - i want to get these puppies clean and smart

iBertus · 2005-06-14 04:17:13

sorry, forgot to elaborate. i was just wondering if you like grass better in the default location or do you think it fits better in /opt? i like /opt for grass since it has so many sub-directories under /usr/lib/grass-6.0.0. this is just a personal preference and it may be that most people like it the current way.

with the updated packages from your repo I now have a fully working qgis. i feel that this stuff is coming together quite well considering the short period of time this project has been underway.

now, i'll try and use this stuff on some real data and see what happens.

iBertus · 2005-06-14 04:47:22

okay, i managed to download some MrSID images off the web and convert them to GeoTIFF using the proprietary LizardTech utility. the final GeoTIFF was 1.1GB (the .sid was only 32MB) and I fed that to qgis.. and everything work well. i then imported some ESRI shapefiles of roads onto the image. so far, so good. i'll do more testing in the moring.

dtw · 2005-06-14 09:32:46

oh wow! that's great that it is working.

I did consider putting it in /opt but when i did that I had issues with thing not finding the libs - but i know why that was now (/me slaps self)

The thuban pkg also installs to /usr/lib (with loads of subdirs) and I have another called terraview that will also go there - do you think they should all go to /opt?

Also, in your opinion, is it possible pkg the data sets for easy installation?

iBertus · 2005-06-14 13:50:13

this may sound stupid (i'm not as down w/ the linux filesystem as some) but what about something like /opt/gis and put all packages there. is that too complicated (i.e. does that hold with the KISS philosophy of Arch)?

later today i hope to test some more stuff and report back.

dtw · 2005-06-14 16:13:44

iBertus wrote:

this may sound stupid (i'm not as down w/ the linux filesystem as some) but what about something like /opt/gis and put all packages there. is that too complicated (i.e. does that hold with the KISS philosophy of Arch)?

Generally speaking that's a no no i think. It doesn't really added any benefit and requires a load of bin dirs to be added to $PATH and lib paths to ld.so.conf

I am looking at the possibility of creating a gis group but i don't think that really works.

grass itself would be ok to install in /opt/grass-6.0.0 but it's pretty much of a muchness - it's just as good in one place or the other I think - but that's not gospel

iBertus · 2005-06-14 20:00:18

Perhaps it should be left in the default location. I suppose it really doesn't matter where the software goes if it works.

dtw · 2005-06-14 22:13:20

yup! of course it's flexible, if a compeling reason comes up later changes are pretty easy to make

dtw · 2005-06-15 13:18:33

i now pkg'ed terraview - it's distributed as a binary, which sucks a bit but i think i have got it wrapped up well

dtw · 2005-06-15 13:58:19

gpsman is up now too

iBertus · 2005-06-16 02:23:13

terraview seems to work alright... now, to gpsman.

---- UPDATE ----

gpsman seems to work but i'll have to hookup a gps unit later just for more testing. so far, so good.

dtw · 2005-06-16 08:53:45

iBertus - i had no idea you were so into this stuff, dude! what do you do?

dtw · 2005-06-16 10:47:37

i started a new thread here which shows the contents of the [gis] repo - maybe we should move feedback there?

dtw · 2005-06-16 12:54:33

dibblethewrecker wrote:

i started a new thread here which shows the contents of the [gis] repo - maybe we should move testing feedback there?

dtw · 2005-06-16 13:00:59

ok - you can still find a selection of pkgs that I had intended to build at http://dtw.jiwe.org/share/gis

Here is an update on those:

The ones in the web apps folder are for creating GIS web applications - these are no use for a livecd and hard to pkg - so i am scratching them

The ones in the interlis folder: interlis is a programming language rather than a tool - i can't see these being of enough use to people except interlis experts - again no good on a livecd

gmt and igmt i DO want to make but I am having trouble with gmt and igmt depends on it - the gmt make process is odd to say the least - i'll have to check that out

I have asked dusty to work on jump as it is java based and he is java-god

tkgm_util is for tcl/tkgeomap but i can't get tkgeomap to build against tclgeomap at the moment (see this thread)

drawmap build fails - dunno if it is the code

bbbike - probably not that much use to anyone but can't get that to build either

and that's it! so most of the work is done!

just gmt and some data to sort out and we are there!

iBertus · 2005-06-17 18:43:46

that is one strange build system. i can't seem to find an option to place the make output into a specific directory.

dtw · 2005-06-17 19:41:06

which pkg?

I did get tkgeomap to build - i had to rebuild tclgeomap and it was a pain but see the thread linked above for details

Dusty has made great strides with jump and it's dependencies!

Am very happy

iBertus · 2005-06-17 21:38:45

oops.. was talking 'bout gmt.

dtw · 2005-06-17 22:23:44

yeah - it's a bastard! needs a good few hours study

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