Saga of QGIS Tutorial--NetBSD stumble at the finish line

Previously*, I wrangled QGis version 3.28 or better on Raspberry Pi's trying to complete pertinent tutorial lessons and hitting local software application limits. I had success with OpenSUSE and FreeBSD (on x86 hardware). My next focus was NetBSD on a Pi4 (with the full 8GB), after upgrading the package system (in fits and starts) to the Q3 2023 release. 

* https://jspath55.blogspot.com/2023/09/tiling-for-geo-map-referencing-in-qgis.html

https://jspath55.blogspot.com/2023/10/qgis-tutorial-torture-track.html

Just because it says BETA doesn't mean this is a flaky OS. The tiny box just takes everything I can throw at it; my main challenge is getting all the pieces talking nice (and doing a valid GEO PDF at the end).

$ uname -a

NetBSD nb 10.0_BETA NetBSD 10.0_BETA (GENERIC64) #0: Sat Sep  9 15:02:43 UTC 2023  mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64 evbarm

[     1.000000] NetBSD 10.0_BETA (GENERIC64) #0: Sat Sep  9 15:02:43 UTC 2023

[     1.000000]         mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64

[     1.000000] total memory = 8024 MB

[     1.000000] avail memory = 7735 MB

[     1.000000] simplebus0 at armfdt0: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

[     2.425653] bwfm0: Firmware file model-spec: brcmfmac43455-sdio.Raspberry Pi 4 Model B.bin

The PkgSrc has a current enough version (between Rasbian and Windows), and all the ducks included.

$ ldd /usr/pkg/bin/qgis
/usr/pkg/bin/qgis:
        -lqgis_app.3.28.7 => /usr/pkg/lib/libqgis_app.so.3.28.7
        -lqwt.6 => /usr/pkg/qwt-6.1.5/lib/libqwt.so.6
        -lexecinfo.0 => /usr/lib/libexecinfo.so.0
        -lelf.2 => /usr/lib/libelf.so.2
        -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
        -lgcc_s.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        -lQt5PrintSupport.5 => /usr/pkg/qt5/lib/libQt5PrintSupport.so.5
        -lQt5Widgets.5 => /usr/pkg/qt5/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5
        -lQt5Gui.5 => /usr/pkg/qt5/lib/libQt5Gui.so.5
        -lQt5Core.5 => /usr/pkg/qt5/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
        -lz.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
        -ldouble-conversion.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libdouble-conversion.so.3
        -lstdc++.9 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.9

Summing up:

$ qgis --version

QGIS 3.28.7-Firenze 'Firenze' (exported)

Steps for tutorial section 14 (part: "14.3.6. basic Follow Along: Joining the Forest Stand Data")

https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/training_manual/forestry/stands_digitizing.html#basic-fa-digitize-the-forest-stands

1. Clicking on the table on the right side lights up the areas on the left. Huzzah. Tiny sliver of badly-drawn border there as I could not (did not) locate the "fix overlaps" routine). Next lesson.

QGIS Attributes table - Pi 4 NetBSD 10

The attributes link is a huge step in correlating pictures to numbers, as it were.

2. Filter on the far left (funnel icon) where I selected by a routine just 2 subsets. Heads above manually clicking to select, and saved for future changes.

QGIS Filter - Pi4 NetBSD 10

3. A tree view of attributes rather than a grid view, 

QGIS attributes / Tutorial document

Zoom

The lessons worked, as far as an academic follow-the-book exercise went. I knew the parts I skipped or didn't complete, learning enough to see applicability to a few real-world projects.

The export to a georeferenced PDF is almost there but the NetBSD packages I installed omitted a GDAL subset.

GDAL PDF driver was not built with PDF read support. A build with PDF read support is required for GeoPDF creation.

Back to the package manual. And the mailing support lists with a reasonable question.

Next lesson: Elevations with topographic or other sources, or a dive into database storage/retrieval.