Hi Thanks <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <<a href="mailto:sanjaybhangar@gmail.com">sanjaybhangar@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div>Dont think there is a 'GIS distro', though it might be cool if you package one after installing all the stuff :-D What exactly do you need to do ? Here's some stuff I could think of that's probably useful: sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass grass grass-dev gdal-bin python-gdal postgresql-8.3-postgis If you want to do web stuff, I would recommend the GeoDjango frame-work . </div></div></blockquote></div> will install all that we have some bit of archived material, raw and well finished and we wanted to be able to see them, manipulate them etc add on new data, layers, like the new maps that NASA has just released. import GPS points directly onto a layer etc am a GIS novice, most of the work was done by others and on closed systems but i want to make sure as much works on Ubuntu. am not sure of what all but right now want to install everything because once i get home won't have access to broadband to install regards ram