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I have followed various online help guides on how to make ecw for QGIS 1.8 work in Ubuntu 12.04. I had it all working in Ubuntu 10.04 but since migration to 12.04 no such luck.

Is there a guide that works for Ubuntu 12.04?

At the moment it seems easier to install the windows version where ecw support is included in the install, but I would like to stay with Ubuntu.

cheers and thanks for any advice.

jurgena

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[Installing (lib)gdal-ecw][1] doesn't do the trick? [1]: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/1892/quantum-gis-and-ecw-images – lynxlynxlynx Jun 12 '12 at 8:31

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ECW libraries are not open source software and cannot be freely distributed. You need to add manually the ecw support in your local copy of gdal. On ubuntu do this:

wget http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/distfiles/libecwj2-3.3-2006-09-06.zip

unzip libecwj2-3.3-2006-09-06.zip

cd libecwj2-3.3

./configure

make

sudo make install

sudo gdal-ecw-build /usr/local/

sudo ldconfig

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Many thanks Giovanni. I just precise that the libgdal-ecw-src package from ubunutugis ppa have to be installed to make it work – simo Jun 13 '12 at 15:59
It should be available now – Giovanni Manghi Jun 30 '12 at 15:09

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