Why won't the QGIS Lisboa MSYS and OSGeo4W shortcuts launch?

Question

I'm trying to deploy Quantum GIS Lisboa to 64bit windows 7 machines the installation works fine but the shortcuts wont run

With an error Windows cannot find "C:\Program"

This also happens on XP sp3 machines

The version I'm installing is QGIS-OSGeo4W-1.8.0-1-Setup.exe

ANy help would be really appreciated

Thanks

Answer 1

Can you check o4w_env.bat in your bin folder if it reads:

@echo off
echo.
rem Make parent of this script location our current directory,
rem converting UNC path to drive letter if needed
pushd %~dp0
cd ..

set OSGEO4W_ROOT=%cd%
PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin;%PATH%
for %%f in ("%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\etc\ini\*.bat) do call "%%f"
echo OSGEO4W home is %OSGEO4W_ROOT%
popd

I think the " " around %OSGEO$W_ROOT% are important. Unless the variable is broken. Running the bat should return

OSGEO4W home is C:\Program Files (x86)\Quantum GIS Lisboa

Manually editing the bat file, this works also:

set OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\Program Files (x86)\Quantum GIS Lisboa

on Windows 7. If that works, run the bat files in etc\ini one by one to see which one makes trouble.

Answer 2

I had exactly the same problem with the standalone installer. Uninstalling QGis, and reinstalling via the OSGeo4W Installer made msys work as it should under Windows 7.

Answer 3

UPDATE:

I thinks it's fixed now. You might want to try the latest OSGeo4W installer and test it again. I just tried it on my computer and it installed QGIS on C:\OSGeo4W hereby avoiding the problem with spaces. Good luck :)

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You'll have to edit batch files and convert the paths with spaces to their short names. Particularly qgis.bat

 @echo off

SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Lisboa
call "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\bin\o4w_env.bat
call "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\grass\grass-6.4.2\etc\env.bat
@echo off
path %PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\grass\grass-6.4.2\lib
start "Quantum GIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis\bin\qgis.exe %*

The following line

SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Lisboa

should be

SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\PROGRA~1\QUANTU~1

On 64-bit Windows, it should be

SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\PROGRA~2\QUANTU~1

Since the problem is with the spaces, supplying the short names of the path should solve the problem.

By the way, I'm assuming that you don't have other versions of QGIS. If there's an older version then it would be

C:\PROGRA~2\QUANTU~2 

and so on depending on how many older versions there are. Thanks for pointing it out @Andre.