diff --git a/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/default.nix
index 231533e580ea..8e36ec9b168c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, gdal, cmake, qt4, flex, bison, proj, geos, x11, sqlite, gsl,
-  pyqt4, qwt, fcgi, python, libspatialindex, libspatialite }:
+  pyqt4, qwt, fcgi, pythonPackages, libspatialindex, libspatialite, qscintilla, postgresql, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "qgis-2.4.0";
+  name = "qgis-2.6.1";
 
-  buildInputs = [ gdal qt4 flex bison proj geos x11 sqlite gsl pyqt4 qwt
-    fcgi libspatialindex libspatialite ];
+  buildInputs = [ gdal qt4 flex bison proj geos x11 sqlite gsl pyqt4 qwt qscintilla
+    fcgi libspatialindex libspatialite postgresql ] ++
+    (with pythonPackages; [ numpy psycopg2 ]);
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake python ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake makeWrapper ];
 
   # fatal error: ui_qgsdelimitedtextsourceselectbase.h: No such file or directory
   #enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -20,11 +21,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://qgis.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "711b7d81ddff45b083a21f05c8aa5093a6a38a0ee42dfcc873234fcef1fcdd76";
-    
-
+    sha256 = "1avw9mnhrcxsdalqr2yhyif1cacl4dsgcpfc31axkv7vj401djnl";
   };
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/qgis \
+      --prefix PYTHONPATH : $PYTHONPATH
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     description = "User friendly Open Source Geographic Information System";
     homepage = http://www.qgis.org;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/grass/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/grass/default.nix
index 6abf6da4a69f..291ce723aab0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/grass/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/grass/default.nix
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ a.composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} (fix: {
     description = "free Geographic Information System (GIS) software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization";
     homepage = http://grass.itc.it/index.php;
     license = [ "GPL" ];
+    broken = true;
   };
 
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix
index d5b401b804fb..43c2a9089b73 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, sqlite, zlib, proj, geos }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libxml2, sqlite, zlib, proj, geos }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "libspatialite-4.1.1";
+  name = "libspatialite-4.2.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "03wikddl60ly0yh8szrra1ng2iccsdzz645vkn6a7x2jz45a5084";
+    sha256 = "0b9ipmp09y2ij7yajyjsh0zcwps8n5g88lzfzlkph33lail8l4wz";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ sqlite zlib proj geos ];
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libxml2 sqlite zlib proj geos ];
 
   configureFlags = "--disable-freexl";
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  meta = {
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Extensible spatial index library in C++";
     homepage = https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite;
     # They allow any of these
-    license = [ "GPLv2+" "LGPLv2+" "MPL1.1" ];
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2Plus lgpl21Plus mpl11 ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/proj/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/proj/default.nix
index 17c05ada7a84..85962d56cc30 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/proj/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/proj/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "proj-4.5.0";
+  name = "proj-4.8.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.5.0.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1d2qz0vgp13hkfgaz7hkblhb9w2fh2blbjqz73xdinwc08cmflqv";
+    url = http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.8.0.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "1dfim63ks298204lv2z0v16njz6fs7bf0m4icy09i3ffzvqdpcid";
   };
 
-  meta = { 
+  postConfigure = ''
+    patch src/Makefile <<EOF
+    272c272
+    < include_HEADERS = proj_api.h org_proj4_Projections.h
+    ---
+    > include_HEADERS = proj_api.h org_proj4_Projections.h projects.h
+    EOF
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Cartographic Projections Library";
-    homepage = http://proj.maptools.org;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
+    homepage = http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qscintilla/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qscintilla/default.nix
index 52736ba5d344..8c91db74f957 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qscintilla/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qscintilla/default.nix
@@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "qscintilla";
-  version = "2.8.3";
+  version = "2.8.4";
 
   name = "${pname}-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/pyqt/QScintilla2/QScintilla-${version}/QScintilla-gpl-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "fb94e6d61c3ccd4bf167d5f092629e619f7069d42207469458998b761a7cf505";
+    sha256 = "03z8mc7wpk0hyza9b45pyf523gdk0qsqaywkprmp6ffc81s2sywv";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ qt ];
 
   preConfigure = ''
     cd Qt4Qt5
-    sed -i -e "s,\$\$\\[QT_INSTALL_LIBS\\],$out/libs," \
+    sed -i -e "s,\$\$\\[QT_INSTALL_LIBS\\],$out/lib," \
            -e "s,\$\$\\[QT_INSTALL_HEADERS\\],$out/include/," \
            -e "s,\$\$\\[QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS\\],$out/share/qt/translations," \
            -e "s,\$\$\\[QT_INSTALL_DATA\\],$out/share/qt," \