QGIS
From Wildsong
I looked for a spatial data browser and found GeoApt Spatial Data Browser. I got interested in adding to it, so I started looking at its internals. I became more curious about QGIS.
Building QGIS from source
First go do this: Building GDAL on Linux
Then do this: http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html#toc3
