homebrew QGIS with ESRI FileGDB
10th February 2013 - Fairbanks
Starting scenario
homebrew already setup on my handsome OSX laptop. Got QGIS installed via the Kyngchaos packages but it is all sad and randomly pops now and then. Want QGIS installed via homebrew. Ready set go.
update homebrew
brew update
brew upgrade
Then go through a few brew installs to fix missing dependencies to achieve updated homebrew setup… it had been a while since I updated my brew.
source blogs
Ragi Burhum’s blog post run down on getting qgis working on homebrew: http://blog.burhum.com/post/36080548777/getting-qgis-working-on-homebrew
Ragi tackled the FileGDB action too: http://blog.burhum.com/post/34851795066/installing-gdal-ogr-with-filegdb-support-on-osx-with
And this stackexchange helped pull it together: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/29501/how-to-get-gdb-esri-file-geodatabase-in-qgis-for-mac-osx-10-6
ESRI FileGDB install time
http://resources.arcgis.com/node/agreement/3193
insert rant
Where do you have to login using your ESRI global account to access the download. Really ESRI? Really? Stop being dorks and go make your own homebrew, RPM, and .DEB package so people like me don’t want to rage at you in our spare happy hacking time.
The EULA - they should have a specific EULA for the filegdb support and not contaminate it with ArcGIS online streaming service stuff. Clean that thing up and really ask themselves why they are restricting access to this thing that lowers the barrier for letting users access their own data.
Anyway - downloaded the FileGDB_API_1_2-64.zip
unzip -d FileGDB_API_1_2-64 FileGDB_API_1_2-64.zip
mv FileGDB_API_1_2-64 /usr/local/opt
cd /usr/local/include
ln -s ../opt/FileGDB_API_1_2-64/FileGDB_API/include/* .
cd ../lib
ln -s ../opt/FileGDB_API_1_2-64/FileGDB_API/lib/lib* .
install the GDAL
Now our GDAL can be built with the magic sauce - but I already had it so remove existing gdal:
brew uninstall gdal
brew install gdal --enable-unsupported
tap science for qgis recipe
brew tap homebrew/science
brew install qgis