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| Your Ubuntu is ready for daily, professional GIS work. Getting started it's just a matter of minutes. You can easily install on your machine each of the GIS applications listed below (in brackets the ''package name''), through the Synaptic Package Manager or typing ''sudo apt-get install program-name'' from the command line, just like any other package. | Your Ubuntu is ready for daily, professional GIS work. Getting started it's just a matter of minutes. After adding the UbuntuGIS repository corresponding to their distribution (in sources.list), you can easily install on your machine each of the GIS applications listed below (in brackets the ''package name''), through the Synaptic Package Manager or typing ''sudo apt-get install program-name'' from the command line, just like any other package. |
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| * '''PPA (Personal Package Archives):''' * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable |
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| '''A:''' Short answer: none of the above. Long answer: this page is meant to give you all the needed information to get your Ubuntu box into a working, professional GIS workstation/server. UbuntuGIS cannot be ''installed'' simply because we do not create separate packages. However, in the future there might be an ubuntu-gis metapackage that results in the installation of all the needed software. |
'''A:''' An external repository (PPA). UbuntuGIS is a repository that can be added in your sources.list which will provide up to date packages. |
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| '''A:''' GIS related packages reside in the ''universe'' repositories, and they are built from the Debian sources from time to time, when there's a sync to the current unstable. * '''Q:''' When will the packages that are in the DebianGIS repository be available in Ubuntu? '''A:''' It depends. See above. Each Ubuntu release includes an update of the ''universe'' repositories. |
'''A:''' Basically, yes. We rebuild/adapt the DebianGIS packages in the different Ubuntu distributions. |
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| * UbuntuGIS is closely aligned with the [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis|Debian-GIS project]]. At the start of UbuntuGIS release cycle, new Ubuntu packages are imported from Debian Unstable into Ubuntu. | * UbuntuGIS is closely aligned with the [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis|Debian-GIS project]]. |
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| * Start here: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide|Ubuntu Packaging Guide]] to learn about packaging. * The [[https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntugis|UbuntuGIS launchpad]] provides project hosting for UbuntuGIS. Sign up if you want to help and join the email list here. |
* Start here: [[http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/|Debian New Maintainers' Guide]] and/or [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide|Ubuntu Packaging Guide]] to learn about packaging. * Follow the public mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu * The [[https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntugis|UbuntuGIS launchpad]] provides project hosting for UbuntuGIS. Sign up if you want to help. |
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| === GRASS 6.2 Packages === You can find an unofficial repository with updated GRASS 6.2 packages adding to your sources the following line: {{{ deb http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu edgy multiverse }}} |
=== UbuntuGIS Packages === You can see the current packages that are in the UbuntuGIS repository on our launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable |
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| === Quantum GIS (QGIS) tutorials and packages === | === Quantum GIS (QGIS) packages === Quantum GIS provides their own Ubuntu repository: |
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| [[BuildingQuantumGisFromSource]] · This good and detailed HOWTO deals with compiling QuantumGIS on Ubuntu making the very best use of packages for all dependancies. Works for the SVN version, too! | http://qgis.org/en/download.html |
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| Trial Ubuntu packages from current SVN version ( /!\ tested only with Dapper): * http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/ Packages in the above directory are date marked so just pick the most recent one. |
QGIS should also be in UbuntuGIS soon. |
Your Ubuntu is ready for daily, professional GIS work. Getting started it's just a matter of minutes. After adding the UbuntuGIS repository corresponding to their distribution (in sources.list), you can easily install on your machine each of the GIS applications listed below (in brackets the package name), through the Synaptic Package Manager or typing sudo apt-get install program-name from the command line, just like any other package.
General Contents
PPA (Personal Package Archives):
Mailing List:
Public list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu
Old list archives (now limited to Ubuntugis committers)
IRC -- We share the irc://irc.oftc.net#debian-gis channel with the Debian GIS project.
Packages List -- list of packages in, or proposed for, Ubuntu
For users
UbuntuGIS FAQ
Q: Is UbuntuGIS another, separate, distribution? Or a subset of packages that I can install as a whole on my machine? Or an external repository?
A: An external repository (PPA). UbuntuGIS is a repository that can be added in your sources.list which will provide up to date packages.
Q: Do you just repackage the DebianGIS packages?
A: Basically, yes. We rebuild/adapt the DebianGIS packages in the different Ubuntu distributions.
Q: Can I install DebianGIS packages on Ubuntu?
A: You can try, but it's not recommended. Ubuntu and Debian have source compatibility (e.g. they are built from the same sources), but binary compatibility is not guaranteed to work. Add to this that many packages may have different names due to different compile environments, and you'll see it can be a bit frustrating. However, it might work for you if you manage to tweak the packages to work.
For developers and packagers
UbuntuGIS is closely aligned with the Debian-GIS project.
Start here: Debian New Maintainers' Guide and/or Ubuntu Packaging Guide to learn about packaging.
Follow the public mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu
The UbuntuGIS launchpad provides project hosting for UbuntuGIS. Sign up if you want to help.
See also
In the OSGeo wiki there's a page dedicated to the task of creating binary distributions of Open Source Geospatial Software: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Binary_Distribution
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-gis hosts a specification request for a working, updated GIS workstation under Ubuntu. (needs updating)
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/96 : Here are detailed instructions on how to build a complete GIS working environment on a Debian-based GNU/Linux system. Works well on Ubuntu, too.
http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?PostgisOnUbuntu · John Taber wrote this good howto recently, so it should be quite easy to install from source the very latest version of PostGIS (even CVS!).
http://fsiu.uwc.ac.za/gis/index.php?module=wiki&action=wikilink&pagename=PostGisInstallUbuntu
UbuntuGIS Packages
You can see the current packages that are in the UbuntuGIS repository on our launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable
Quantum GIS (QGIS) packages
Quantum GIS provides their own Ubuntu repository:
http://qgis.org/en/download.html
QGIS should also be in UbuntuGIS soon.
UbuntuGIS (last edited 2018-09-11 07:30:43 by sebastic)