UbuntuGIS

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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.

General Contents

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: 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.

  • Q: Do you just repackage the DebianGIS packages?

    • 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.

  • 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

  • Start here: Ubuntu Packaging Guide to learn about packaging.

  • The Debian-GIS project is closely aligned with Ubuntu GIS. Most debian packages shouldn't be hard to build from their sources.

  • The UbuntuGIS launchpad provides project hosting for UbuntuGIS. Sign up if you want to help and join the email list here.

See also

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

Quantum GIS (QGIS) tutorials and packages

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!

Trial Ubuntu packages from current SVN version ( Warning /!\ tested only with Dapper):

Packages in the above directory are date marked so just pick the most recent one.