Hi Ismail! Many thanks for your advice; I'll check it out. I haven't actually had a chance to sit down and try to purge QGIS and start again. Andre was trying to help me but I wasn't sure where to start so I haven't tried since I last inquired about the process!
Thanks a lot, Jimi. On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:59 AM Ismail Sunni <imajimat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jimi, > > I have a similar problem. I fix it by reinstalling gdal (libgdal20). I can > install QGIS again after that. But, I am not an expert with this package > manager thing, so perhaps it can work for you also, or perhaps not :) > > While trying to fix my problem, I found this > https://askubuntu.com/questions/140246/how-do-i-resolve-unmet-dependencies-after-adding-a-ppa > which > probably useful for you. > > Best regards > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 1:22 PM J. M <jimimc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi again Andre, >> >> Thanks for that, I more or less get what you mean. The problem is that >> when I ran autoremove it came back with almost a gig of dependencies it >> wanted to remove, so I cancelled it! QGIS wasn't the last program I >> installed so I have no idea how to purge only the dependencies directly >> related to the previous version of it I was running. If I run autoremove >> and it damages other applications or makes my system unusable then I won't >> be able to fix it (I'm only a user, I've got no background in programming). >> I read around and people warned strongly against doing this unless you're >> sure what you want to remove. How can I be sure I only remove the right >> dependencies? Does QGIS have a list or something I can use as a guide? >> >> If anyone could explain how to use Synaptic package manager then I'd be >> really grateful! It must have the most unintuitive interface of any piece >> of software I've ever tried to use.. >> >> I edited the source file last time I installed it, so that part is done. >> Incidentally, I don't see the 'other Software' tab in the Ubuntu Software >> Center, so I just edited it manually. Any idea what that package is called? >> I'm happy enough using the terminal if I know (roughly) what I'm doing! >> >> Thanks a lot team, >> Jimi. >> >> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:18 PM Andre Joost <andre+jo...@nurfuerspam.de> >> wrote: >> >>> Am 18.02.20 um 23:58 schrieb J. M: >>> > Hi again Andre, >>> > >>> > I don't actually understand what to do with this, because I can't run >>> 'sudo >>> > apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass' as it keeps giving me the same >>> > error messages about broken packages. >>> >>> Yes, because you have packages that are compiled against a set of >>> libraries that does not match your computer. You have to remove, >>> autoremove and purge those QGIS packages to force a download from the >>> right folder. >>> >>> >>> > When you say this, I don't get what this link does. I click on it and >>> it >>> > just takes me into a file hierarchy. Are users supposed to obtain the >>> > downloads from here, or is it purely informative? >>> > Try >>> > deb https://qgis.org/ubuntugis bionic main >>> >>> That should go into your sources list, to replace the QGIS download >>> source you used before. The Ubuntu Software center has a tab for "other >>> Software" that holds the same information, so no need to edit the >>> sources file manually. >>> >>> HTH, >>> Andre Joost >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > -- > Ismail Sunni > Software Engineer > ismailsunni.id > ismailsunni.wordpress.com >
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