Although I agree that adding PPAs can be confusing for new users, if you are a Ubuntu user, you better start learning :-)
The QGIS project doesn't officially release binaries on any other formats. These are the guys behind the 3.14 Flatpak Alexandre Neto On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 4:08 PM Philip Barlow < [email protected]> wrote: > Adding the PPA seems to be a very common stumbling block for new Linux > users. Installing QGIS from repos yields a different versions depending on > the update cycle of your distribution. > > > > Flatpak, Snap or Appimage would appear to be easier, distro agnostic ways > to install software. QGIS 3.14 is available as a flatpak… perhaps an LTR > flatpak woud fill a gap? > > > > *From:* Qgis-user <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Hernán > De Angelis > *Sent:* 04 September 2020 09:28 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Migration to Linux > > > > Although not mentioned very often, openSUSE is also a user friendly, > stable and high quality distro. I am a user since 2005 and have seldom had > any problem in all those years. As for QGIS and other geotools there is the > Application:Geo repository that is well updated and maintained. My choice > however is to compile QGIS from source every once in a while. It is not so > difficult as it sounds but perhaps not everyone's cup of tea. > > /H. > > > > On 2020-09-04 10:19, Alexandre Neto wrote: > > Hello, > > > > QGIS from Ubuntu repositories are generally very outdated. For that > reason, we always suggest you to add a QGIS project PPA repository and > install a more recent version. > > > > Here you can find instructions on how to add the QGIS PPA repository in > ubuntu based machines and install QGIS 3.14: > > > > https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#quickstart > > > > If you want to install QGIS 3.10 LTR, which I suggest you do, you will > need to read about the different repositories bellow. Basically, you need > to replace the URL in the quickstart instructions by this one: > > > > https://qgis.org/ubuntu-ltr > > > > Best regards, > > > > Alexandre Neto > > QGIS Support > > www.qcooperative.net > > > > > > > > A quinta, 3/09/2020, 13:47, Jo <[email protected]> escreveu: > > I'm also using QGIS on Linux Mint. > > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:33 PM Mike Flannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I moved from Win to Linux about a year ago. I tried > Ubuntu first. Due to difficulties installing QGIS > I moved to Mint, which worked immediately from the > software manager with an older version if I remember > correcly. I worked quite a while on installing QGIS > on Ubuntu because I really wanted to use Ubuntu. > > You can go back to 10/19/2019 in the list archives, or > you can see the discussion here: > > http://www.mflan.com/temp/re_[qgis-user]_problems_with_development_version.eml > > > Mike > > > On 9/3/20 2:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Why I will probably go Linux on my Windows 7 laptop. The desktop will > probably need to stay on Windows because of the other stuff. I don’t want > a dual boot. > > > > What disto would you consider that makes it easy for inexperienced Linux > users. 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