June 2017
Beginner
428 pages
10h 2m
English
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Installing on Windows
Installing the required software on Windows only requires a few installers as most of the packages are bundled into the OSGeo4W installer.
- First of all, we have to download the 32-bit installer from https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ as this is the only architecture where an OSGeo version of Apache is bundled.
- Opening the installer, we can choose between different setups. For our cause, we should choose Advanced Install. When we reach the Select Packages section, we must choose the following packages as a minimum:
- Desktop--grass, qgis
- Web--apache, qgis-server
- The next page tells us we don't have to bother with dependencies as the installer selected them for us automatically.
- The last step can be quite troublesome as ...