I just ran into that same problem myself, using Ubuntu 11.04. I upgraded qgis to 1.7.2 through synaptic, and got the "Could not open CRS database /resources/srs.db<br>Error(14): unable to open database file!" error. I had to uninstall qgis and then re-install to get it working.
Where do I file a bug report for ubuntugis packages? The mailing list is not active, and the launchpad bugs page does not let me add a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntugis). Subscription policy: shows "Restricted Team". Here are my QGis packages, there is no reason for multiple libqgis packages (1.7.0 and 1.7.1). In my opinion. libqgis.1.x.y should be named only "libqgis" for ease of use, and the old versions would not be left around causing this bug. ii libqgis1.7.0 1.7.0~natty1 Quantum GIS - shared librariesii libqgis1.7.1 1.7.1-1~natty1 Quantum GIS - shared librariesii libqgis1.7.2 1.7.2-1~natty1 Quantum GIS - shared librariesii python-qgis 1.7.2-1~natty1 Python bindings to Quantum GISii python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~natty1 Python bindings to Quantum GIS - architecture-independent filesii qgis 1.7.2-1~natty1 Geographic Information System (GIS)ii qgis-common 1.7.2-1~natty1 Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii qgis-plugin-grass 1.7.2-1~natty1 GRASS plugin for Quantum GISii qgis-plugin-grass-common 1.7.2-1~natty1 GRASS plugin for Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii qgis-providers 1.7.2-1~natty1 collection of data providers to Quantum GISii qgis-providers-common 1.7.2-1~natty1 collection of data providers to Quantum GIS - architecture-independent files Regards, Etienne On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > I think another way to phrase the question is why doesn't the deb (FYI > packages via the update tools are deb files) have a conflict rule that > removes the old version? > > So if you have > libqgis1.7.2 > there should be a conflict rule saying to remove other versions of > libqgis1.7.0 libqgis1.7.1 > > It's a little more work to maintain but solves both issues of knowing > exactly which version a user has and cleaning up on upgrade. > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 11/30/2011 09:27 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote: >> Just clarifying I was updating through the update manager of ubuntu, >> not through the deb files. >> Agus >> >> 2011/12/1 Etienne Tourigny <[email protected]>: >>> 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-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
