Why can't I launch qgis??

[Ed Greshko]

Beartooth wrote:
> 	I have 
>
> [btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ rpm -q qgis
> qgis-1.0.2-1.fc11.i586
> [btth at Hbsk2 ~]$
>
> or equivalent on all four of the Fedora 11 PCs on my desk -- and none of 
> them can seem to launch it. Not with the GUI (by clicking the launcher, 
> which shows a Q transfixed by an arrow pointing NE), nor yet from the CLI 
> (by commanding "qgis &" as user or as root).
>
> 	Any guesses why not?
>
> 	There is a little more detail at 
>
> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4969
>
> but no answer there, either. 
>
>   
Well, just as a bit of FYI, I didn't have qgis installed.  So, I
installed to test....

Downloading Packages:
(1/18): blas-3.2.1-3.fc11.i586.rpm                          | 349 kB    
00:02
(2/18): cfitsio-3.130-4.fc11.i586.rpm                       | 1.4 MB    
00:07
(3/18): fftw2-2.1.5-18.fc11.i586.rpm                        | 376 kB    
00:01
(4/18): gdal-1.6.0-8.fc11.i586.rpm                          | 7.5 MB    
00:43
(5/18): geos-3.0.3-2.fc11.i586.rpm                          | 475 kB    
00:03
(6/18): gpsbabel-1.3.6-2.fc11.i586.rpm                      | 578 kB    
00:03
(7/18): grass-libs-6.3.0-12.fc11.i586.rpm                   | 1.0 MB    
00:06
(8/18): gsl-1.12-3.fc11.i586.rpm                            | 842 kB    
00:04
(9/18): hdf5-1.8.3-1.fc11.i586.rpm                          | 1.5 MB    
00:12
(10/18): libdap-3.8.2-3.fc11.i586.rpm                       | 469 kB    
00:02
(11/18): libgeotiff-1.2.5-4.fc11.i586.rpm                   | 724 kB    
00:03
(12/18): librx-1.5-12.fc11.i586.rpm                         |  33 kB    
00:00
(13/18): netcdf-4.0.1-1.fc11.i586.rpm                       | 680 kB    
00:05
(14/18): ogdi-3.2.0-0.13.beta2.fc11.i586.rpm                | 274 kB    
00:01
(15/18): proj-4.6.1-2.fc11.i586.rpm                         | 163 kB    
00:00
(16/18): qgis-1.0.2-1.fc11.1.i586.rpm                       | 5.8 MB    
00:47
(17/18): unixODBC-2.2.14-2.fc11.i586.rpm                    | 475 kB    
00:02
(18/18): xerces-c-2.8.0-5.fc11.i586.rpm                     | 1.3 MB    
00:11
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Total                                              148 kB/s |  24 MB    
02:45

download, installed, and then launched without problem.

FWIW, I had installed from an ssh session and then logged in to F11
under KDE to test. 

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