Install

Software Installation and Setup

System Requirements

• Operating system: 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows.
• Windows Edition: Windows 7 or Windows 10.
• Recommended RAM size: 8 GB
• Please make sure that you have Administrator Privilege to the computer that you are using to install QGIS.

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To successfully load the Processing Algorithms that the GALUP team developed, the QGIS 3.10.8 version is particularly REQUIRED. To avoid any potential conflicts, please first perform an uninstallation before moving forward on this instruction, if another version of QGIS is installed on your computer.

Installation Steps

1. Install QGIS 3.10.8
2. Install PyLUSAT
3. Load Processing Algorithms in QGIS

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1. Install QGIS 3.10.8

1. Go to https://qgis.org/en/site/.
2. Click Download Now.
3. Go to ALL RELEASES where you can download Previous releases of QGIS are still available here.
4. Download QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.10.8-1-Setup-x86_64.exe, if you are using 64-bit system, or download QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.10.8-1-Setup-x86.exe, if you are using 32-bit system.
5. Double-click the downloaded installation file and follow the installation instruction to install QGIS 3.10.8 on your computer.

2. Install PyLUSAT: Python for Land-Use Suitability Analysis Tools

1. Go to https://github.com/SERVIR-WA/GALUP.
2. Click Code, and then click Download ZIP to download the lucis_qgis repository (see image below).
   
3. Unzip the downloaded GALUP-master.zip.
4. Open the unzipped folder, go to install, and then QGIS 3.10.8.
5. Locate the folder that matches your operating system and then copy and paste the entire folder to QGIS 3.10 root folder, i.e.,
   1. Copy _pylusat 32-bit_ to C:\Program Files (x86)\QGIS 3.10, if you are using a 32-bit system, or
   2. Copy _pylusat 64-bit_ to C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.10, if you are using a 64-bit system.
6. Open the copied folder in QGIS 3.10 root folder and double-click to run the install_pylusat.bat file.
7. A pop-up window will ask you two questions (see the animation below):
   1. Specify the root folder of QGIS: type or paste the path, e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\QGIS 3.10.
   2. Is the QGIS a long term release [Y/N]: type Y (case insensitive).
8. Press Enter key and wait for the installation to complete.
   

3. Load Processing Algorithms in QGIS

1. Open QGIS Desktop 3.10.8 program from Start Menu.
2. Check out this Processing link to make sure Processing, a Core Plugin of QGIS, is activated.
   

   💡 Plugins are at the core of QGIS:
   
   QGIS has been designed with a plugin architecture. This allows many new features and functions to be easily added to the application. Some of the features in QGIS are actually implemented as plugins.

3. Open Processing Toolbox on the Menu bar or Press Ctrl+Alt+T.
4. Click Add Script to Toolbox (see the animation below).
5. Locate the algorithms folder within the GALUP-master folder you downloaded from GitHub.
6. Select all the *.py files and click Open.
7. Now you can find all Processing Algorithms developed by GALUP under the Scripts dropdown menu.