Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-10-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
If you go to Add Vector Layer and select the source type as Database, ODBC is the first entry in the list of database types. On 12/10/17 22:37, GregStef wrote: Hi Patrick. Sorry for the late reply, I had a small accident and I was nailed to bed for a while. I just installed 2.14, but cannot

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-10-12 Thread GregStef
Hi Patrick. Sorry for the late reply, I had a small accident and I was nailed to bed for a while. I just installed 2.14, but cannot find even a mention of ODBC. Could you please point out where it is? -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-User-f4125267.html ___

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-21 Thread GregStef
I mainly use QGIS to connect to 8 Oracle DBs and work on a dataset of about 200 spatial tables, each one having 1.5 - 26 mil. rows of fairly complex polygons. It's a production system (all but 2 DBs) and I've being using Oracle OCI (or thin client with some tools) from the start - 9 years now (I al

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-21 Thread Patrick Dunford
I did a lot of dbms stuff with other platforms, but not qgis or linux. I see there is ODBC support in the Linux edition, does that not give you any options? On 21/09/17 01:28, GregStef wrote: OK, I see. Anyway, thanks for your time and patience... Best regards. -- Sent from: http://osgeo

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Thread GregStef
OK, I see. Anyway, thanks for your time and patience... Best regards. -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-User-f4125267.html ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qg

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Thread Patrick Dunford
Unsure really; one of the reasons to build from source is to try out some development features before they are released. I know more about that than I do about specific DBMS support; as it's fortunate that all of my data can be in shapefiles, which have very simple Dbase tables built into them.

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Thread GregStef
From what I've read, I formed the impression that Linux QGIS never had and never will have out-of-the-box Oracle support, because of the licensing/downloading intricacies of Oracle. That last sentence of yours, revived my hope... Has there been Oracle support in a previous QGIS? I'd prefer working

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Thread Patrick Dunford
The resource or performance hit of a VM depends very much on what you are doing with it. It's not a given that it will necessarily be slower. A Linux VM can run in as little as 15 GB of disk space, and my Linux VM running Qgis is faster than one running Qgis on Windows 7, and the Windows 7 VM a

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Thread GregStef
Hi Patrick I understand your point on VMs. What I was trying to say was that, since a VM consumes a certain amount of RAM/CPU for the OS, and since I already have a windows VM in my box, there's no point in adding a second VM for QGIS - I can install it in my windows' VM (and get Oracle support o

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Thread GregStef
Hi Matthias, thanks for the heartwarming reply :) I'm on a very demanding project right now - I'll try re-running the make on first opportunity (the latest, during the weekend) and come back with the results. -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-User-f4125267.html

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Thread Patrick Dunford
Off memory I had a similar issue building 2.18 on Ubuntu 17.04, and it started up but wouldn't load PyQt or something like that. Building some masters on Debian 9 was more reliable, but it will still say something is missing on startup (osgeo or something, whatever that is). On 20/09/17 00:04

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Thread Patrick Dunford
I run it all the time in VMs now and I run the development builds most of the time. Even with projects with a lot of raster images, it only uses about 5 GB of RAM. On 20/09/17 00:01, GregStef wrote: Hi Patrick, thanks for the quick reply. I am not sure how 'far' Linux mint is from Ubuntu. Us

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Greg, Not sure what exactly is going wrong when it freezes. But since it happens at 99% it's possible that all the important parts are already there and you are already able to start QGIS. Go to the build directory and type ./output/bin/qgis It's possible that this just works. Good luck,

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Thread GregStef
Hi Patrick, thanks for the quick reply. I am not sure how 'far' Linux mint is from Ubuntu. Using either of the Ubuntu-stable or Ubuntugis-unstable repos, I successfully installed QGIS in one single effort. I would expect the same to happen with a plain make, since I use the latest release (so, you

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Thread Patrick Dunford
My counsel is build to one of the supported platforms (Debian or [a]Ubuntu), not derivatives. This can be done easily in a virtual machine. There are some xenial-specific issues in general which are not there if using a later release. None of these comments may be relevant to your particular

[Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Thread Greg Stef
Hello everyone. This is my 1st post and I am not sure if it should be short or more detailed. I have posted a question to Stackexchange ( https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/255565/building-qgis-2-18-12-on-linux-mint-18-2-sonya-with-oracle-provider), with no answers so far, so I'll provide the