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

Installation Steps

1. Install QGIS 3.10.8
2. Install PyLUSAT
3. Load Processing Algorithms in 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. If you have other version of QGIS installed on your computer, please uninstall it first.

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, copy and paste QGIS 3.10.8 (the entire folder) to QGIS 3.10 root folder, i.e., the installation folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\QGIS 3.10, if on a 32-bit system).
5. Open QGIS 3.10.8 you just copied and double-click to run the install_pylusat.bat file.
6. A pop-up window will ask you two questions:
   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).
7. Press Enter key and wait for the installation to complete.
   

3. Load Processing Algorithms in QGIS

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

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   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.
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.