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I should probably put that on launchpad somewhere. Bug reporting should be possible if you have a launchpad account, hmm or were we using a trac instance for that. I'll have to go check. Thanks, Alex On 12/04/2011 11:01 AM, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
