Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software, using its own desktop environment.
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Migrating to Linux from Windows
I am looking at switching over a computer from Windows to Ubuntu. I have been a Windows user all my life and been using GIS for over a decade. I am curious about the migration to Ubuntu. Mostly, ...
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How to install QGIS on Ubuntu 12.04?
Has anyone had any luck with getting QGIS working on Ubuntu 12.04? I have tried the stable and unstable versions and with not luck. I also get the following:
"Some packages could not be installed. ...
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How can I enable Shapefile GUI Loader in pgadmin3?
I have installed PostgreSQL 9.1 with PostGIS 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 11.10.
I also installed pgadmin3 1.14.0-beta1, following this instructions.
If I remember correctly, when I installed PostGIS on Windows ...
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Spatially enabled Postgres database
I am trying to create a spatially enabled PostGIS database. I am following the PostGIS documentation, http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2648455.
In the short ...
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Is ArcGIS available on Ubuntu?
Is ESRI's ArcGIS platform of programs available on Ubuntu? I love open source and if I could I would love to try and migrate to this open source OS.
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Cannot add plugins to QGIS on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric
I have installed Qgis on ubuntu. it works fine but I am not getting option to add new plugins only option to manage plugins is available. Please help
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Installing pgRouting Ubuntu Lucid
Here are the steps i did:
Added ppa to repository sources
in synaptic marked all pgrouting for postgres 8.4
apply (everything was ok)
restarted postgres
But, i just tried a simple function ...
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Memory considerations for cloud based GeoStack
Some time ago I asked about hardware considerations of cloud based GeoStack implementation. As a follow up to this question
There are some good pointers in related question already, but they mainly ...
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ECW for QGIS 1.8 in Ubuntu 12.04
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 ...
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How to compile QGIS with GRASS on Ubuntu?
I am on Ubuntu building qgis with grass plugin. I have build grass code separately and used --prefix to provide the path
GRASS_PREFIX is /usr/local/grass-6.4.2 and GRASS_INCLUDE_DIR is ...
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SLD encoding in GeoSever on Ubuntu
I am facing a challenge with the encoding in my SLD file in GeoServer on a Ubuntu server.
When I create a SLD file containing the danish letters æ, ø, å in the GeoServer web interface like this ...
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ArcGIS Server 10 on Ubuntu or CentOS?
I know Solaris is on the way out with 10.1
I also know that v10 is only supported on 32bit flavours of RedHat & SUSE.
What I do want to know, has anyone had any luck installing it on either ...
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Why can't I add most plugins under Ubuntu 12.04?
I loaded QGIS into 12.04 with much trouble but it works. Although I do not seem to be able to load most plugins. I go to fetch plugins and most are not loaded so I try to load some and they will not ...
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Python GDAL package missing header file when installing via pip
I asked this question on Stack Overflow before I realised this site existed. As this site it more appropriate, I'll ask it here too.
I'm trying to install gdal from pip pip install gdal inside a ...
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Advice on benchmarking my Tile Server (Apache2+mod_wsgi)
I'm wondering what advice people have for benchmarking a tile server?
Specifically, I'm running a TMS using TileLite, and Vector Tiles using TileStache. Both are running under Ubuntu Server 10.10 / ...
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Install PostGIS on Ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to install PostGIS on Ubuntu 12.04 and I think everything is installed correctly except for postgresql. I followed this post. I get the following error and nothing I do seems to satisfy ...
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QGIS projects - collaboration on different platform
on my computer, I have both - Ubuntu and Windows - operating systems.
Since I work on both of them and QGIS save path to particular layers using absolute path,
it's very inconvenient to store ...
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“Hello World” introduction for ubuntuGIS?
Is the GIS equivalent of "Hello world!" = "You are here?"
I installed ubuntuGIS recently, but I'm a little overwhelmed navigating the network of many packages to begin accomplishing simple things. ...
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Tilecache seeding with mapserver doesn't generate tiles
I'm attempting to seed my tile cache on the server for use within OpenLayers for a few zoom levels, however the script doesn't seem to be working at all and everything I try I just get the same ...
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How to install GeoServer on Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit?
I borrowed the user name from friend.
I need to install GeoServer on Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit.
first, I installed Oracle Java 7 (JRE/JDK) successfully.
then, i thought i need to install JAI and ...
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Problems in installation of PostGIS
I will be installing PostGIS for my project using PostgreSQl (OSM) in Ubuntu 9.04. I had all the requirements prior to the installation (PostgreSQL, Proj4, GEOS). When I unzip the PostGIS tar, then ...
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Can POSTGIS 2.0 be install with POSTGRES 9.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 OS at the moment?
This question is more about environment set up.
At the current moment, March 4th 2013, can POSTGIS2.0 be install with POSTGRES 9.2?
I check their website out and to my understanding it is not ...
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Why does the QGIS 'project properties' option disappear in Ubuntu?
For some reason my 'project properties' button has disappeared for good. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and QGIS 1.8.
Sometimes it would straight up disappear, to return later, but now its just 'gone'.
I'll ...
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Installing the development files libqgis-dev in Ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to install development files which include the headers and the libraries for qgis in Ubuntu 12.04. I used Ubuntu software center, synaptic and the terminal and am still getting the same ...
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Why does the layer list context menu not open anymore?
I cannot access layers properties (i.e. change color, filter by query, anything).
The mouse right click doesn't do anything.
Is there a way restoring qgis to default?
Ubuntu 12.04, QGIS 1.8
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QGIS Globe UnsupportedOperationException
My QGIS Globe is not working: After starting it, that massage pops up in a endless loop:
UnsupportedOperationException: GeometryGraph::add(Geometry &): unknown
geometry type: ...
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Installation issue with OpenGeo-Suite
Ok so last time had a big issue with running WFS. Seems the issue was neither with my OpenLayer code nor Geoserver. The issue was with the servers not able to communicate with each other. The tomcat 6 ...
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QGIS locked into fullscreen mode on Ubuntu 12.04
No crash in this case, but I made the mistake of toggling to fullscreen mode on my netbook running Ubuntu 12.04. It's now impossible to escape this "No Menus" view, and it seems to have disabled the ...
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Switch classes on/off within shapefile in QGIS 1.8
Hei!
I got shapefile with 1800 points. They are classified by attribute in 10 classes. How can I display only 1 or 2 classes (like - switch on/off layer)?
It seems quite usual function, but I ...
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Any pgrouting enabled hosting providers?
I am really interested if any of you know about a hosting provider that offers postgis & pgrouting pre-installed?
If not, can I just go ahead and purchase a linode hosting account and do all the ...
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Cannot fix QGIS after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 Raring
I have following problem. After upgrade to 13.04 I had problem with PyQGIS mentioned here.
I followed almost all advices described there, finally removed QGIS (had 1.8 Lisboa) and added the Ubuntugis ...
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How to install GDAL 1.10 with OGR SQLite driver support on Ubuntu?
How can I install GDAL 1.10 with OGR SQLite driver support, and JPEG and PNG drivers per http://www.gdal.org/frmt_mbtiles.html
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How to install PostgreSQL 9.2 with PostGIS 2.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 (or higher)?
I have read this question: Install PostGIS v2 for PostgreSQL v9.2, but it didn't resolve my problem.
I added the PostgreSQL backports PPA and installed the postgresql-9.2 package, but there is no ...
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How to install fTools and Table manager
I've just make clean install of Qgis Lisboa under Ubuntu Precise. Latest Qgis version under Windows XP is very unstable (crashes every few minuter while editing shp file).
After new installation ...
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“Find by attribute” plugin error
This is the error message, when launching the plugin. I hope this is the right place, where to report this kind of message.
Any help would be appriciated!
An error has occured while executing ...
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QGIS Fetch Python Plugins Crash
I am using QGIS v1.6 on Ubuntu 10.10.
When I use the Fetch Python Plugins menu item QGIS crashes. If I run from the terminal with sudo I get the following error:
Segmentation Fault
Does anyone know ...
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GeoServer Web Admin Interface: 404 error
I'm working through the OpenGeo workshop and I'm stuck with setting up a GeoServer. When I try to access the Web Admin Interface localhost:8080/geoserver/, Tomcat reports a "HTTP 404 Status" error ...
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How do I get and install the latest version of QGIS in Ubuntu?
I'd like to get the latest 64-bit dev build of QGIS on my Ubuntu setup. How exactly do I go about it? I assume it's some kind of arcane terminal command...
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SID and/or ECW support on QGIS for Linux
Running QGIS on Ubuntu 11.04 and QGIS for Android on Galaxy Tab 10.1 (which is an awesome project by the way)
NEED to figure out a way to get SID and/or ECW files loaded.
Saw some posts about ...
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Uninstall opengeo suite in Ubuntu
How can I properly uninstall the complete opengeo suite in my Ubuntu 12.04? I had installed opengeo suite but it seems there was some error in the PostGIS extension to the Postgres of the OpenGeo ...
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QGIS Server Capabilities Response doesn't contain any Layers (Fedora 15 64-bit)
I'm having similar issues running QGIS Mapserver under a fresh install of Fedora 15 (64-bit). The XML response from GetCapabilities will not show the individual layers inside the QGIS project, just ...
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PostGIS installation on Ubuntu 10.12 (Amazon Services)
On Ubuntu 10.12 (AMI on Amazon), I use aptitude to install Postgresql and PostGis.
On terminal running psql interactive prompt, I type CREATE EXTENSION postgis and
ERROR: could not open extension ...
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Unable to install the PostGIS extension to PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I just installed Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (on a virtual machine). I then successfully installed the PostgreSQL 8.4 database management system. I am now trying to install PostGIS, which is an extension ...
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GDAL does ECW but QGIS (Linux !!) does not load ECW file
Followed instructions from various posts (each one with slight variations on the theme) and most of the time have no trouble getting the installed GDAL to accept ECW files. However, QGIS stubbornly ...
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How to install QGIS Server Ubuntu 12.04?
I am new user to Ubuntu (12.04) and am trying to set up QGIS server. I have QGIS desktop installed and working.
In regards to QGIS server I have used
apt-get install qgis-mapserver ...
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“Please ensure that the GDAL_DATA environment variable is set and try again” on Kubuntu 12.10
I'm having a problem loading the 'convert os gml to ogr' plugin in QGIS 1.8 running on (k)ubuntu 12.10.
Basically, clicking the plugin prompts the error:
"Please ensure that the GDAL_DATA ...
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Cant install QGIS 1.7.4/1.8 after system update
after a routine system update my qgis got lost (xubuntu 12.04). After trying to reinstall 1.7.4 this massage apears in Softwarecenter (german):
Die folgenden Pakete haben nicht erfüllte ...
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QGis 1.7.4 on Ubuntu 12.04
Will there be available stable version of Qgis 1.7.4 in Ubuntu 12.04?
Version 1.9 is working fine at the moment, but as it is unstable yet, dont want to risk with my work.
Thanks.
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'Couldn't load PyQGIS' after upgrade to Raring Ringtail?
I upgraded my Ubuntu to Raring Ringtail.
After that, when starting QGIS I receive a message:
Couldn't load PyQGIS.
Python support will be disabled.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", ...
