installation.md

Installation

A. Standard QGIS Plugin Installation

1. Download the most recent zip archive of the HUB TimeSeriesViewer QGIS Plugin from https://bitbucket.org/jakimowb/hub-timeseriesviewer/downloads

2. Extract the timeseriesviewerplugin folder and copy it to the user' QGIS python plugin directory ~/.qgis2/python/plugins/timeseriesviewerplugin

   Alternatively, you can choose any other folder my/qgis/plugins/timeseriesviewerplugin if your ensure that it is known to the QGIS_PLUGINPATH:

   • In QGIS, got to Settings >> Options >> System.
   • Enable the Environment group box.
   • Create a new entry that append my/qgis/plugins to the variable QGIS_PLUGINPATH.

3. Finally restart QGIS, open the Plugin Manager and enable the HUB-TimeSeriesViewer.

B. Developers

You really want to use git to install and update the viewer.

If git is not available in your shell, you can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads. You can install git without admin rights.

Larger binary files, e.g. for exemplary data, will are distributed via the Git Large File Storage (lfs) extension https://git-lfs.github.com.

1. Open your shell and clone the repository into a local QGIS Python Plugin Folder

    cd %USERPROFILE%\.qgis2\python\plugins
    git clone https://bitbucket.org/jakimowb/hub-timeseriesviewer.git

2. Checkout the development branch (this might change with the fist stable master version) git checkout development git lfs checkout

3. Start QGIS, go to Plugins -> Manage and Install and enable the "HUB TimeSeriesViewer" Plugin

4. Download updates if available

    cd %USERPROFILE%\.qgis2\python\plugins\hub-timeseriesviewer
    git pull