[Qgis-user] qgis 1.5 & lenny

[Torsten Lange]

Am Dienstag, 11. Mai 2010 07:39:44 schrieb Niccolo Rigacci:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:02:29AM +0200, tlange at gwdg.de wrote:
> > Hmm, not sure. The only conflict I saw was package postgresql-8.3-postgis
> > depends on libgeos-c1(>=3.0.0) and qgis depends on libgeos-c1(>=3.2.0).
> > I upgraded libgeos-c1 from 3.0.0 to 3.2.0 but Synaptic still wants to
> > remove Postgis.
>
> It is very strange, because postgis has very few dependency
> requests, not involving geos or other packages available on
> gfoss.it: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/postgis
>
> So I suspect that synaptic is somewhat confused. I use dselect or
> aptitude which are more hard to use than synaptic, but they are
> more powerful on managing conflicts.
>
> You can try to remove postgis an reinstall it afterwards. The
> postgis package does not affect your existing geo-databases.
>
> Removing postgresql-8.3-postgis instead, will leave yuor
> geo-database unusable (may be not corrupted, but I don't assure
> that).
Niccolo, thanks a lot. Yes, seems aptitude should become my package manager in 
squeeze, if I don't change the dist. However since squeeze will be out soon 
and a system upgrade is close, so I may break a bit the synaptic package table 
by using dpkg, apt or aptitude.

Torsten