That to me sounds like you've got the QGIS repos and the UbuntuGIS repos. UbuntuGIS should be pulling 1.6.x I will double check with them, since I do recall in some recent past versions there being an error in the dependency list that still had 1.5 for QGIS.
Alex M S wrote: > gdalinfo --version returns GDAL 1.6.2 > > if I do 'sudo apt-get remove gdal1-1.5.0' it wants to remove all this: > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > proj libgdal1-1.6.0-grass > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libgdal1-1.5.0 libqgis1.3.0 python-qgis python-qgis-common qgis > qgis-common qgis-plugin-grass qgis-plugin-grass-common > > > And if I 'apt-get install qgis', it wants to put gdal 1.5.0 back. > > Is there something with the ubuntugis/unstable repo perhaps? > > Thanks, > Mark > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> > wrote: >> M S wrote: >>> I had a working QGIS and Mr SID, but just did an update to Karmic >>> which installed new qgis and grass (same versions?) and subsequently >>> broke the mr sid relationship (I cant add MR SIDs to QGIS). >>> >>> I am using this site to install >>> http://n2.nabble.com/Directions-to-get-mrsid-support-in-GQIS-and-other-packages-using-gdal-on-Ubuntu-td3169342.html >>> >>> Everything seems fine with the creation of gdal_MrSID.so. >>> >>> gdal_GRASS.so, gdal_MrSID.so and ogr_GRASS.so are all in the >>> /usr/lib/gdal16plugins directory. nothing is in the >>> /usr/lib/gdal15plugins directory. >>> >>> I notice that libgdal1.5 gets installed from the ubuntu repo, while >>> additionally libgdal1.6 gets installed from the ubuntugis directory. >>> (?) >>> >>> gdalinfo --formats lists MR SID as a recognized format, but QGIS >>> doesnt have it in the list nor recognizes it as GDAL raster. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark >> Which gdalinfo are you using. Good chance you installed it for libgdal >> 1.5 instead of 1.6. Try removing all the 1.5 stuff and redo the MRSID >> install. >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user