<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hi,<br><br>I'm definitely more of a user than developer, & have not compiled QGIS now for several years (no need these days - thank you all!!)<br>I've been using QGIS under various distros of Linux (Mandrake, PCLOS, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mint, etc) since QGIS v0.2, way back when...<br><br>I just built a new 32 bit VM of Linux Mint 17 RC (based on Ubuntu Trusty v14.04) , and applied all updates.<br>Added the Postgres repository (according to instructions):<br><span style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ trusty-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'<br>wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -</span><br><br>Added the Ubuntu dev snapshot repository (listed in <span
style="color:#888888;"><span class="yiv1962661444hoenzb"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jürgen's email)</span> </span></span>the same way:<br><span style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://qgis.org/debian-nightly trusty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'</span><br><br>Updated the package list:<br><span style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">sudo apt-get update</span><br><br>And then fired up Synaptic to install the software I wanted, which includes (amongst lots of others) Postgres 9.3, Postgis 2.1, QGIS dev (v2.3)<br><br>Added my user as a Postgres superuser, created a test db, connected & added a Postgis extension, edited pg_hba.conf to allow trusted access from localhost, reloaded the postgresql service & started QGIS, then connected to my new db.<br><br>Everything worked perfectly, & I now have an updateable VM running
the dev version of QGIS to test with - including Postgis connection functionality which is critical for me. I concede that this procedure might be a bit daunting for a casual user, but for anyone familiar with Linux, it was just a matter of finding the relevant instructions (and repositories) and going through a normal setup process for installing software apps on a fresh Mint (Ubuntu) install.<br><br>Now to load some plugins, data, symbologies, etc & try it out...<br><br><br>My thanks to all those who's work allows people like me to do this stuff, and have it "just work!"<br><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Brent Wood<br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> kimaidou <kimaidou@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Lene Fischer <lfi@ign.ku.dk> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org>; qgis-developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, May 24, 2014 8:41 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] [ANNOUNCE] 2.3 feature freeze begun<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4331402130"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Ok, sorry for the noise... I did not notice the
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<b>På vegne af </b>kimaidou<br clear="none">
<b>Sendt:</b> 23. maj 2014 21:50<br clear="none">
<b>Til:</b> Jürgen E. Fischer<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv4331402130MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">We should provide a HTML page with some help how to download and test the master version. Otherwise Windows, Linux and Mac users who are not developpers (and compilers) would not be able to help us testing the
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I'd like to remind everyone that the 2.3 development cycle ended at 12:00 UTC. We are now in feature freeze on the road to the 2.4 release on <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=1440&iso=20140620T12&year=2014&month=6&day=20&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&msg=2.4%20Release">2014-06-20</a>
(almost 28 days away; see also <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index#road-map.html">
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Now <b>we</b>, <b>the community</b>, need to prepare QGIS for release. No new features will be added anymore.
<b>Users</b>, if not already begun, should now start extensive testing of master and report bugs on the
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://hub.qgis.org/">hub</a>. <b>Developers</b> should move their focus from creating new features to fixing bugs.
<b>Translators</b> can can continue their work (Werner updated the translations in master. Thanks! Note that this might be an incremental process as - although there is feature freeze - bug fixes could still change or add translation strings).<br clear="none">
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The nightly builds of QGIS testing available for <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#windows">
Windows</a>, Linux (<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#id3">Debian</a> and
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Ubuntu</a>) and <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#id13">
Mac OS</a> are now effectively snapshots of what's going to be released. Except of course for the bugs that are going to be fixed until release day. For Windows there will also continue to be weekly snapshots of the standalone installer that can serve as
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Lets keep up working together to make 2.4 another great release.<span style="color:#888888;"><br clear="none">
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<pre><span style="color:#888888;">Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:#888888;">Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:#888888;">QGIS PSC member (RM) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
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