Hey Dave!
It's a little bit confusing. There are like three repositories: stable,
unstable, and testing. Testing you don't want (unless you want to test
packages). Typically stable is a bit older. Unstable is current. Which
doesn't really make sense - but that's the way it is.
Under my /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory I made a qgis.list file and
put the following in there:
deb http://qgis.org/debian xenial main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main
That gets QGIS 2.16.2 and GDAL 2.x.
It would "sound" nicer if it was testing stable and "fresh" (which is
how libreoffice does it) - but unstable is actually quite stable for 16.04.
Randy
On 09/12/2016 11:59 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
On 13 September 2016 at 13:08, Dave Kimble<[email protected]> wrote:
I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 and QGIS 2.8.6 .
Help > Check Version > says there is v2.16.2 ,
but the instructions at
http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu
for how to do it are totally baffling.
Hi Dave!
If you're not comfortable with these instructions, I'd probably
suggest sticking with the version provided by your distribution and
wait till QGIS is updated in the repos (ie, with Ubuntu 16.10).
Nyall
I've never had to edit /etc/apt/sources.list before,
and I don't like the look of the example:
debhttp://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main
I don't want an unstable package!,
I've never had to remove a package before installing a more recent version,
do you expect me to remove a working package and replace with one from an
unstable repository?
Normally I would expect to add-apt-repository and update.
When I do that I get lots of ign: lines then
Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu xenial
Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
details.
E: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages
404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
$
-http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/ doesn't have a
/xenial/ folder
Obviously I need some help here, but it really shouldn't be necessary.
Dave
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