kartoza/qgis-desktop repository overview

⁠docker-qgis-desktop

A simple docker container that runs QGIS desktop

Note this is still experimental and probably does not represent the most optimal way to do this. Current limitations:

• Qt4 theme is not carried over nicely
• Uses xhost + which is not ideal since it allows all remote hosts to display windows on your X display (probably not an issue if you are on a local network).

⁠Getting the image

⁠Use the docker repository:

This will consume the most bandwidth for the initial build but will be easy to update thereafter.

docker pull kartoza/qgis-desktop

You will also need to create the desktop shortcut yourself by taking the resources from the git repo e.g.:

sudo cp run-qgis-2.10-in-docker.sh /usr/local/bin
sudo cp QGIS-2.10.Docker.desktop /usr/share/applications/
sudo cp qgis-icon-60x60.png /usr/local

⁠Build the image yourself:

Clone the repo to your local system and then run the build.sh script - it will create a launcher script in /usr/local/bin and create a desktop shortcut that will launch QGIS.

git clone git://github.com/kartoza/docker-qgis-desktop
cd docker-qgis-desktop
./build.sh

##Alternative build:

To build the image do:

docker build -t kartoza/qgis-desktop git://github.com/kartoza/docker-qgis-desktop

If you follow this approach you will need to create the application launcher yourself, manually. Consult the sources in this repository for more details on how to do that.

⁠Run a container

To run a container do:

xhost +
# Users home is mounted as home
# --rm will remove the container as soon as it ends

docker run --rm --name="qgis-desktop-2.10" \
	-i -t \
	-v ${HOME}:/home/${USER} \
	-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
	-e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
	kartoza/qgis-desktop:latest 
xhost -

The above is the content of run-qgis-2.8.0-in-docker.sh so you can just

./run-qgis-2.10-in-docker.sh

Follow the instructions above to create a desktop shortcut. Then, when you click on the QGIS icon this script will run and start the container.

Note that your home directory will be mounted in the container and thus accessible to QGIS. If you want other directories to be available, just add then to run-qgis-in-docker.sh with -v flags.

If QGIS crashes or hangs it might leave an orphan docker process running. If you see the process with

docker ps

Then run

docker stop <process id or container name>

Else run

docker ps -a

then

docker rm <process id or container name>



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Tim Sutton ([email protected])
July 2014