On 09/27/2013 09:55 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > I've just upgraded to Linux Mint 15 and had some trouble installing > QGIS. I followed the instructions on the shiny new web pages for > Raring Ringtail. > > The instructions seem to imply adding both qgis.org and the ubuntugis > PPA to sources. >
That should be a really huge OR It's qgis.org OR ubuntugis If you do both you end up with potential conflicts. > The qgis.org repo seems to have 2.0.1-2, and ubuntugis had 2.0.1-1 - I > got into a weird state where the conflicts list of python-qgis > included python-qgis.... Removing the qgis repo from sources and > chanting various apt spells eventually got me a clean qgis from > ubuntugis-unstable with version 2.0.1-1~raring and python support > working. > > I thought ubuntugis-unstable would be more recent (and hence less > stable) than qgis.org, so why does it have a lower version number? > What was causing the odd conflict? What did I do wrong? > The version of QGIS is actually the same, -# is actuall just an increment that gets raised every time someone reuploads the same package with a minor packagin fix. What differs is the versions of underlying libraries: gdal, geos, and proj For many people having a newer gdal (1.10.x) and a newer goes fix a good deal of bugs in support certain format reading/writing and certain spatial analysis operations. > The install instructions aren't very beginner friendly for Linux. > > But it does look lovely.... Now time to play with the toolbox.... And > maybe start porting my plugins! > > Barry Sounds like it needs a little more clean up. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
