As a followup to my previous post on turning Ubuntu Gutsy into a GIS workstation, Here are the revised instructions for Ubuntu 8.04 (The Hardy Heron).

Note that there are a few additonal apps and changes in here:

• Postgis

• Mapnik

• New version of QGIS installed via repository

• OpenStreetMap tools (JOSM and osm2pgsql)

• Geotiff utilities

• Some nice python spatial libs (shapely, owslib, geopy and pyproj)

Run the following as root on your new Hardy installation, answer a few configuration questions and you’ll be ready to go.

echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qgis/ubuntu hardy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update

apt-get -y --force-yes install grass mapserver-bin \
gdal-bin cgi-mapserver python-qt4 python-sip4 python-gdal \
python-mapscript gmt gmt-coastline-data r-recommended gpsbabel \
shapelib qgis qgis-plugin-grass python-setuptools \
python-mapnik mapnik-plugins mapnik-utils osm2pgsql josm postgresql-8.3-postgis \
python-dev build-essential libgdal-dev geotiff-bin sun-java6-jre

easy_install shapely geopy owslib pyproj

EDIT: If you’re looking for more up to date packages for geos, gdal, etc, try adding ` deb http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse ` to your /etc/apt/sources.list