Compiling QGIS 2.0.1 for Fedora 19 in a few steps

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Table Of Content

1. 1. Preparations

2. 2. Get the source code

3. 3. Compile it locally as RPM package

4. 4. Install and enjoy

Thanks to Volker Fröhlich’s efforts, a source code RPM package (SRPM) of QGIS 2.0.1 is now available for Fedora. If you are not yet F20 user (like me), you can just take the F20 package and compile it for F19 (or even F18) since there will be no backport of QGIS 2 to F19 (it comes with QGIS 1.8). But: we do want QGIS 2 on Fedora19!

Solution: compile it yourself.

1. 1. Preparations

The best way is  to use “mock” which is used to recompile SRPMS in a separate local environment (“chroot”) without cluttering the system with extra packages needed for the compilation (run as “root”):

su
yum install mock

2. 2. Get the source code

Next download the SRPM package from the Koji  server:
QGIS:  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=467757 (–> src – download) or check here for more recent versions.

3. 3. Compile it locally as RPM package

The general compilation command (“mock”) would be:

mock -r my_fedora_version_config --rebuild my_source_rpm.src.rpm

So, check for Fedora version config name which is suitable for your system (“my_fedora_version_config“)

ls /etc/mock/

In my case of a 64bit machine, it is “fedora-19-x86_64”. Hence we can compile QGIS 2.0.1 directly from the SRPM file:

mock -r fedora-19-x86_64 --rebuild qgis-2.0.1-2.fc20.src.rpm

Note: the compilation takes 40min on my tiny core i3 laptop (ASUS X202). Use the time to donate some coins to the QGIS project :-)

4. 4. Install and enjoy

Once the compilation job is done, i.e. the binary RPM files are available for installation. To install the freshly compiled QGIS 2.0.1 RPMs, run:

cd /var/lib/mock/fedora-19-x86_64/result/

# an existing QGIS1.8 installation will be replaced: 
yum localinstall qgis-2.0.1-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm \
qgis-grass-2.0.1-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm qgis-python-2.0.1-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm

# consider to cleanup (or keep it for the next update, it is about 1.5GB):
rm -rf /var/lib/mock/fedora-19-x86_64/
# leave the "root" shell
exit

Now we can happily use QGIS 2.0.1 on Fedora 19!

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About neteler

Markus Neteler , a founding-member of the FOSSGIS.de (D-A-CH), GFOSS.it (Italy), and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), was head of the GIS and Remote Sensing Unit at the Research and Innovation Centre of the Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy from 2008-2016. He then co-founded the mundialis company (Bonn, Germany), a startup specialized in open source development and massive data processing. He is author of several books and chapters on GRASS and various papers on GIS applications. Being passionate about Open Source GIS, he became a GRASS GIS user in 1993 and a developer in 1997, coordinating its development since then.

10 thoughts on “Compiling QGIS 2.0.1 for Fedora 19 in a few steps”

  1. dlangenhaun

    Thank you for this workaround. Everything worked fine except I had to remove qgis-1.8 manually (yum – remove qgis).

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  4. suresh

    why fedora 19 not supporting lex and yacc programs for execution.Is there any additional libraries required for executing these programs.Can anyone let me know regarding this issue.

    Thanking to you all

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    1. neteler Post author

      To have “flex” and “yacc” on your system, you have to install the related RPM packages with: “yum install flex byacc”. Then you can use them.

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  5. rahul

    i tried compiling a normal c-program in fedora 19 terminal…bt its showing cc command not found…why is it so? and solution?

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  6. Flo

    Thank you for your guideline – after installing it like described I get the following error when starting QGIS 2.0.1 – see below. After clicking OK QGIS starts normally. Some functions like “Raster – Clipper” also report errors (eg. missing gdal_translate).

    Couldn’t load plugin ‘processing’ from [‘/usr/share/qgis/python’, ‘/home/ue000049/.qgis2/python’, ‘/home/ue000049/.qgis2/python/plugins’, ‘/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins’, ‘/usr/lib64/python27.zip’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode’, ‘/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages’, ‘/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info’]

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 182, in loadPlugin
    __import__(packageName)
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    File “/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/__init__.py”, line 20, in
    from processing.tools.general import runalg, runandload, alghelp, alglist, algoptions, load, extent, getobject
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    File “/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/tools/general.py”, line 29, in
    from processing.core.Processing import Processing
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    File “/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/core/Processing.py”, line 52, in
    from processing.admintools.AdminToolsAlgorithmProvider import AdminToolsAlgorithmProvider
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    File “/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/admintools/AdminToolsAlgorithmProvider.py”, line 19, in
    from processing.admintools.PostGISExecuteSQL import PostGISExecuteSQL
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    File “/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/admintools/PostGISExecuteSQL.py”, line 32, in
    from processing.admintools import postgis_utils
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    File “/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/admintools/postgis_utils.py”, line 39, in
    import psycopg2
    File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qgis/utils.py”, line 453, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
    ImportError: No module named psycopg2

    Python version:
    2.7.5 (default, Oct 8 2013, 12:19:40)
    [GCC 4.8.1 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.1-1)]

    QGIS version:
    2.0.1-Dufour Dufour, exported

    Python path: [‘/usr/share/qgis/python’, ‘/home/ue000049/.qgis2/python’, ‘/home/ue000049/.qgis2/python/plugins’, ‘/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins’, ‘/usr/lib64/python27.zip’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0’, ‘/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode’, ‘/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages’, ‘/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info’]

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