I think I misunderstood the problem, the ubuntugis-unstable repos only allows 1 version of qgis installed at a time.
If you need to uninstall qgis-1.7.0 before upgraging to 1.7.2, then there surely must be a problem with the upgrade process in the .deb? On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David J. Bakeman <[email protected]> wrote: > Etienne Tourigny wrote: >> >> shouldn't qgis be packaged in such a way to avoid multiple (minor) >> versions of QGIS? >> >> i.e. change the package names to 1.7 instead of 1.7.0 / 1.7.1 / 1.7.2 ? >> >> There really is no need to have the old packages around, especially >> with this issue. >> > > I respectfully disagree. It's not that the old packages need to be around > it's that they are > out there already. > People have them some people either can't or won't be > able to upgrade > them and when those people have questions it's important that the developers > and others > know exactly what version of the software is being discussed. >> >> Regards, >> Etienne >> >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Noli Sicad<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> >>>> reproduced the problem by installing on another machine with ubuntu >>>> 10.04 . Running qgis from the command line I get: >>>> >>>> alobo@delia:~$ qgis >>>> Warning: loading of qgis translation failed >>>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US] >>>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed >>>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US] >>>> Warning: Couldn't load Python support library: Cannot load library >>>> /lib/qgispython: (/lib/libqgispython.so: cannot open shared object >>>> file: No such file or directory) >>>> >>> >>> In ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, you have to install >>> >>> - python-qgis 1.7.2~Lucid1 >>> - python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~Lucid1 >>> >>> If you upgrade from other version (e.g. 1.7.0), you have to remove >>> first the old version then install 1.7.2. >>> >>> Noli >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
