[Qgis-user] qgis 1.5 & lenny

[Jerry Bond]

Will ftools run if he goes this way?

On 05/10/2010 04:58 PM, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:11:45PM +0200, tlange at gwdg.de wrote:
>    
>> I just tried to install the Qgis64 packages from http://debian.gfoss.it/
>> on my Debian Lenny. By the way Qgis download page says it's version 1.4,
>> but gfoss.it already hosts 1.5.
>>      
> On Gfoss.it you find a Qgis compiled from SVN source code (will
> be version 1.5) not the stable one (1.4).
>
> Notes about gfoss.it are a bit outdated here:
> http://qgis.org/en/download/current-software.html
>
>    
>> However, Synaptic package manager insists to remove my Debian Postgis
>> 1.3.3-3 (packaged for PostgreSQL 8.3.9).
>>      
> This should not happen, at least this should not be caused by the
> Gfoss.it repository. What is the conflict with PostGIS 1.3.3-3?
>
>    
>> Q2: If I would create a Postgis template database, could I let it be removed
>>      by Synaptic without breaking my GIS-database?
>>      
> If you remove the postgis package, you loose just two binaries:
> pgsql2shp and shp2pgsql. The spatial database needs the
> postgresql-8.3-postgis package actually.
>
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