GDAL 1.8 and QGIS
Dear list,
I am currently a happy user of Debian Wheezy (with apt-pining set up to
use also stable/sid/experimental when needed). For two reasons related
to PostGIS [1][2], I need to use QGIS built with GDAL 1.8. I've looked
around, and here is what I found:
- Debian official repository: QGIS is available in version 1.4.0 for
built with GDAL 1.6 (stable) or GDAL 1.7 (unstable).
- QGIS repository: QGIS is available in version 1.7.0 built with GDAL
1.7 (qgis.org/debian) and in version 1.8.0 built with GDAL 1.7
(qgis.org/debian-nightly).
- GFOSS.it repository (debian.gfoss.it): QGIS is available in version
1.7 built with gdal 1.7.
As I am a big fan of the apt packaging system, I figured out I'd rather
ask here before installing QGIS from source. Did I miss something, or
there is no other solution than installing QGIS from source to make sure
that it uses GDAL 1.8?
GDAL 1.8 is available in Debian official repository for experimental. Is
it a good solution to use it, or better to install it from source too?
Many thanks in advance!
All the best,
Mathieu Basille.
[1] I'm using PostGIS Raster, which comes with PostGIS 2.0, and requires
GDAL 1.8
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/frmts_wtkraster.html
[2] I'd like to install the 'wktraster' plugin for QGIS, which requires
QGIS built with gdal 1.8.
http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed
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