Re: [Pkg-grass-general] testing debiangis

["Moritz Lennert" <mlennert@club.worldonline.be>]

On Wed, January 19, 2005 12:06, Paolo Cavallini said:
> Hi all.
>
> We started testing "our" repository. Here are the first comments:
> - mapserver goes surprisingly smooth
> - qgis gives an error when we try to activate the grass plugin (see
> www.faunalia.com/screen1.png)

You either have to set the GISBASE environment variable (export
GISBASE=/usr/lib/grass), or launch qgis from within a GRASS terminal.

> - grass depends on xterm, but the package does not require this dependency

Does it ? Here is the list of depends for the grass package:

Depends: fftw2 | fftw2-double, lesstif2, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfreetype6
(>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libgdal1 (>= 1.2.0), libice6 | xlibs (>>
4.1.0), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libpq3 (>= 7.4),
libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1),
libtiff4, libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxmu6 |
xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), proj (>= 4.4.1-1), tcl8.3 (>=
8.3.5), tk8.3 (>= 8.3.5), unixodbc, xlibmesa-gl | libgl1, xlibmesa-glu |
libglu1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), csh | c-shell, libgrass5.7

However, it does depend on csh | c-shell, and so it installed csh on my
system, although I had been running GRASS in bash without any problems.


> - in the grass startup sreen, epsg codes should be found
> in /usr/share/proj/epsg instead of  /usr/local/share/proj/epsg
> - I installed grass-doc, but I cannot display the help
> - I do not understand how to display grass rasters in qgis (does it also need
> grass plugin?)

The grass plugin will give you a special "Add GRASS raster layer" button, but
this doesn't work for me. I get the following error message:

ERROR 4: `/home/mlennert/GRASSDATA/BELGIQUE/mlennert/cellhd/communes' not
recognised as a supported file format.

The same happens when I try to go via the generic qgis "Add raster layer"
dialog. It looks like this is due to a lack of GRASS-support in gdal.

gdal-config --formats gives:

gxf gtiff hfa aigrid aaigrid ceos ceos2 iso8211 xpm sdts raw dted mem jdem
envisat elas fit vrt usgsdem l1b nitf bmp pcidsk airsar rs2 bsb jpeg2000 hdf4
gif jpeg png netcdf fits

with

~$ dpkg -l "*gdal*" | grep ii
ii  gdal-bin       1.2.5-1        Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Utilit
ii  libgdal1       1.2.5-1        Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
ii  libgdal1-dev   1.2.5-1        Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Develo
ii  libgdal1-grass 1.2.3-0.dgis.u GRASS extension for the Geospatial Data Abst
ii  python-gdal    1.2.5-1        Python bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstr

and

$ dpkg -L libgdal1-grass
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libgdal1-grass
/usr/share/doc/libgdal1-grass/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libgdal1-grass/changelog.Debian.gz

Shouldn't there be more in this package ?

Moritz