New to qgis. I am still running Ubuntu 16.04-LTS because many applications break on 18.04-LTS.
Is there any way to git clone the latest version or download a tarball or a complete .deb that just simply installs or updates an older version? First, someone told me to just sudo apt-get install qgis It turned out to be version 2.18, and I discovered that a few features he had working properly did not work properly on my machine. So I started googling for how to get the latest version when he told me had version 3.something on his Debian machine. I think I followed the instructions properly on https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu I edited /etc/apt/sources.list and added the lines #QGIS repository deb https://qgis.org/ubuntu xenial main deb-src https://qgis.org/ubuntu xenial main Then I attempted sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install qgis python3-qgis qgis-plugin-grass It complained with an error, "unable to find python3-qgis" (or possibly "cannot find python3-qgis") and terminated. So I shortened it to sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass to try and force it to either complain about missing dependencies, or actually go fetch them. However, it completed with no complaints. qgis desktop and qgis browser showed up in the installed software list, and desktop started without complaining about missing dependencies or similar issues. What launched is QGIS 2.18, with a "helpful" banner across the bottom that 3.8.1 is available. This of course took me around the circle again, to the same instructions that either I'm getting senile and missed something, or there's an error or two in the posted instructions. So - how do I clean out all the vestiges of qgis 2.18 to try again with a clean slate, where it won't just merrily go get 2.18 again from the wrong depository? Is there some workaround to gain positive control over which version is fetched, e.g. a place to download a complete .deb archive that it can be installed from, or a git clone or some other method? Thanks. I've spent about 4 hours trying to get the later version on this machine with no success and finally gave up. So I figured I'd better ask the experts what implied step(s) were missed in doing the update.
_______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
