With a clean install of Ubuntu-20.04, I downloaded qgis from the Ubuntu
repository.
This is qgis-3.10.4-A . During the installation I was asked if I wanted
my old settings preserved, I said No.
I get different results depending on how I proceed.
A. If I open the application and choose the
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.
I've never had to edit /etc/apt/sources.list before,
and I don't like the look
Up till now I have only looked at small areas, so this problem may not
have been apparent, but now, looking at a World shapefile, the screen
image is obviously distorted.
View Decorations Grid X=1 Y=1
gives a square grid pattern, when I was expecting a rectangular
pattern - reflecting the
I added http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntu-unstable/ubuntu saucy main
to Other Software Sources, nominated Main Server and launched Update.
The update failed because of a small number of missing files, but
apparently completed cleanly.
However a subsequent update found 3 lock files still
Ubuntu 13.10, QGIS 2.0.1, Python 2.7.5, Python 3.3.2
QGIS Plugins Manage Plugins Settings is saying no python
support detected,
but I have v2.7 and v3.3 installed.
QGIS is working OK, but I guess I'm missing some features.
I need to clip some gigantic shapefiles down to just my locality,
