[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems with 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries

[Alex Mandel]

I think another way to phrase the question is why doesn't the deb (FYI
packages via the update tools are deb files) have a conflict rule that
removes the old version?

So if you have
libqgis1.7.2
there should be a conflict rule saying to remove other versions of
libqgis1.7.0 libqgis1.7.1

It's a little more work to maintain but solves both issues of knowing
exactly which version a user has and cleaning up on upgrade.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/30/2011 09:27 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Just clarifying I  was updating through the update manager of ubuntu,
> not through the deb files.
> Agus
> 
> 2011/12/1 Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
>> I think I misunderstood the problem, the ubuntugis-unstable repos only
>> allows 1 version of qgis installed at a time.
>>
>> If you need to uninstall qgis-1.7.0 before upgraging to 1.7.2, then
>> there surely must be a problem with the upgrade process in the .deb?
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>>>>
>>>> shouldn't qgis be packaged in such a way to avoid multiple (minor)
>>>> versions of QGIS?
>>>>
>>>> i.e. change the package names to  1.7 instead of 1.7.0 / 1.7.1 / 1.7.2 ?
>>>>
>>>> There really is no need to have the old packages around, especially
>>>> with this issue.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I respectfully disagree.  It's not that the old packages need to be around
>>> it's that they are
>>> out there already.
>>> People have them some people either can't or won't be
>>> able to upgrade
>>> them and when those people have questions it's important that the developers
>>> and others
>>> know exactly what version of the software is being discussed.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Etienne
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Noli Sicad<nsicad at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> reproduced the problem by installing on another machine with ubuntu
>>>>>> 10.04 . Running qgis from the command line I get:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> alobo at delia:~$ qgis
>>>>>> Warning: loading of qgis translation failed
>>>>>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
>>>>>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed
>>>>>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
>>>>>> Warning: Couldn't load Python support library: Cannot load library
>>>>>> /lib/qgispython: (/lib/libqgispython.so: cannot open shared object
>>>>>> file: No such file or directory)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, you have to install
>>>>>
>>>>> - python-qgis 1.7.2~Lucid1
>>>>> - python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~Lucid1
>>>>>
>>>>> If you upgrade from other version (e.g. 1.7.0), you have to remove
>>>>> first the old version then install 1.7.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Noli