Craig, this works and I actually
had fwtools with gdal2-0-6, but QGIS
is seeing an older version but with its binaries
in /usr/bin:
$ which gdalinfo
/usr/bin/gdalinfo
$ gdalinfo --version
GDAL 1.5.1, released 2008/03/14
perhaps because this is what is available at ubuntu repositories.
For the future, if the user is installing a QGIS binary (i.e., ubuntu
using Synaptic), is there any way to tell QGIS to use the gdal version
included in FWTools? And/or would just copying the appropriate gdal*
programs from the fwtools bin_safe directory to the /usr/bin directory work?
Thanks
Agus
Craig Leat wrote:
Hi Agustin
Agustin wrote:
Therefore, I understand I should not try to make the current QGIS I have
work with a new compiled gdal.
Yes. gdal is a dependency, so if you change it you need to recompile
everything that depends on it.
BUt could I have a second version of gdal
which I would use for converting ECW and MrSid files to formats that
QGIS can accept?
Yes you can have multiple versions of gdal, just head my earlier
warning if you ever decide to build qgis. You could try the FWTools
[1] binary as this offers the formats [2] you need.
Craig
[1] http://fwtools.maptools.org/
[2] $ ./gdalinfo --version
GDAL 1.5dev, FWTools 2.0.0, released 2007/11/12
$ ./gdalinfo --formats | grep -i "ecw"
ECW (rw): ERMapper Compressed Wavelets
JP2ECW (rw+): ERMapper JPEG2000
$ ./gdalinfo --formats | grep -i "mrsid"
MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
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