In fact it's been done for you already http://live.osgeo.org
The whole stack installed and setup together on a linux box. FYI the scripts used to do all the installing are available if you want to pick and choose what to install and it's all based on Ubunutu/Xubuntu so any variant of those will work. Enjoy, Alex On 05/01/2012 03:36 AM, António M. Rodrigues wrote: > Hi all, > > A quick question concerning QGIS (and other software - GRASS, R ...) on > Linux. > > I have a MAC but at work I am thinking a getting a new machine, running > Linux. After browsing the net for optional distributions, I came across > ArchLinux. It immediately caught my attention with the phrase "A simple, > lightweight distribution". > > The question is: the fact that it is "so lightweight", does it mean it will > be painstakingly hard to get every bits together in order to have all > frameworks, all dependencies, etc, working in order to have a fully working > GIS workstation (QGIS, GRASS, R, ...)? > > Thanks. > Regards, > António > > ---------- > > On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:06:27 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote: >> Lee, >> >> 2012/4/29 Lee Hachadoorian <[email protected]>: >>> Agustin, >>> >>> I suppose it depends on what you don't like about Ubuntu. I also use > 10.04, >>> and am planning on upgrading to 12.04 but keeping the GNOME desktop >>> environment. >> >> Ii think you'll be disapointed... >> >> But if you're looking to get away from Ubuntu, what about the >>> OSGeo-Live distro? It's based on Xubuntu and comes pre-loaded with QGIS > and >>> a bunch of other GIS software, as well as other goodies like R. I've > used it >>> occasionally to test some of the applications that aren't in the regular >>> Ubuntu repos. >> That's a good way to get introduced to the different OSGeo applications, > but >> does not solve my problem. >> >> Thanks! >> Agus >> >>> Best, >>> --Lee >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Werner Macho <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > 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 bit outdated ..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 2¢ > > kind regards > Werner >>>> _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
