QGis cannot import gml-data, perhaps because Xerces is not linked in GDAL-Util-Package

[uhu]

Binary package hint: qgis

I recently wanted to have a look into qgis. So I tried the tutorial.
http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/qgis-1.6.0_user_guide_en.pdf
It says on page 11, at point 6 to load a vector map by opening the file
lakes.gml. But although (or because) I've got the latest ubuntu (11.04)
qgis fails to open the file. And this is somehow frustrating if you want
to start with something and nearly the first thing to try doesn't work.

So I googled and found somebody saying, one could convert a gml file by
saying something like

ogr2ogr -f GML lakes2.gml lakes.gml.

But it failed. Actually the output (the output of ogrinfo is attached)
guided me to the GDAL-Util-Package. Could it be that in ubuntu 11.04 the
gdal-package is not linked to the xerces-library?

[uhu (w2q)]

I added a similar bug report here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdal/+bug/786790

Because I didn't know how to link a bug to two projects.