On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote:
> Sounds like it needs a little more clean up. Yes, its not very friendly for Linux beginners who may never have edited apt sources files before. It may be a better idea to suggest putting the deb lines into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list (assuming the various distros apt versions support a directory of source lists). I'm also not sure the Linux installation should talk about 'installers' since that to me means a runnable executable that does the installation (as in Windows) and not a package-based system, but thats a minor quibble. So I'm still a bit unclear what the text should say. Is it: """ EITHER: Get the latest stable version via packages from qgis.org by creating /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list with the correct lines for your Ubuntu version: deb http://qgis.org/debian raring main deb-src http://qgis.org/debian raring main [etc] and then run sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install qgis [etc etc]. OR Get the latest unstable/bugfix version from the ubuntugis project via the ubuntugis-unstable PPA: [apt-add-repository instructions etc] and then run sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install qgis [etc etc] """ I don't know why the current instructions mention "the ubuntugis project" at the start of the text telling you to add qgis.org to sources.list. Are these packages the same/previous versions of packages that appeared on the ubuntugis PPA? Also, typo on http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html "Recommendend", should be "Recommended". While I'm being picky :) the FreeBSD instructions simply say: """ To compile QGIS from binary packages type: pkg_add -r qgis """ Surely you only compile from source packages? Does this do an *install* from binary packages? Barry _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer