Hi Agus, I'm working with Fedora 16 64 bits. I use Cinnamon, a 'usable for human beings' fork of Gnome 3, and it works fine for me. Fedora comes with 1.7.4 Wrocklaw version of QGIS.
Regards, xavi > Hi Agus, > > Past year I used the Ubuntu based version of Linux Mint, with Gnome, and > QGIS worked just fine with it. The package is included in the > repositories, > but the default version is a bit outdated (version 1.4, I think). But to > get a more recent version, you need just add the repositories indicated > for > the correspondent version of Ubuntu, in the project page. > > As I prefer KDE to Gnome, later I changed to OpenSUSE, but then had > problems installing QGIS. Today I'm using Kubuntu 11.10. > > Regards, > Kerick > > >> Message: 6 >> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:56:38 +0200 >> From: Agustin Lobo <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint? >> To: qgis-user <[email protected]>, qgis-developer >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <cag4nrel-3xesrvzit48bbhvv7z1rgyuc4smestuy85oz_ia...@mail.gmail.com >> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Hi! >> >> Having been an ubuntu user for a long time, I do not like ubuntu >> versions > 10.04 LTS, even after introducing the necessary tweaks to >> get something similar to the classic gnome. I feel ubuntu is heading >> towards simple >> desktops for office users, not convenient for technical and scientific >> work. Perhaps it's time to change >> to another linux distribution. >> >> I would like to know if anybody has experience on installing qgis et >> al (grass, gdal, otb, saga, sextante...) >> on linuxmint, i.e. would the very useful ubuntugis repo be appropriate. >> >> Also, perhaps some exchange of opinions among linux users of qgis >> could make most of us converge >> towards the same distribution (i.e., perhaps linuxmint is not the >> right choice, debian, scientific linux, or just >> remaining in ubuntu would be better), which would be very convenient. >> >> Thanks for your inputs, >> >> Agus >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 8 >> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:54:12 +0200 >> From: Werner Macho <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint? >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi Agus! >> >> I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now >> and I am very satisfied with it. >> Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too >> much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something I >> use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as plain >> debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are a >> bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE >> based on debian testing .. >> I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything >> you want to do.. >> So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take >> linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity - >> but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, with >> newer software from mint.. >> (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I >> am really satisfied with it) >> just my 2ยข >> >> kind regards >> Werner >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAk+cSuEACgkQDAH1YiCxBgmLUwCggFBCejo2SaUYoqHYTSt3BWfo >> Y0sAnR2ddgxDDROb8dm9YL2uL8QmNvqn >> =2cg3 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
