[Qgis-user] QGIS on Mint - my experience

[Kerick Leite]

Hi Agus,

Past year I used the Ubuntu based version of Linux Mint, with Gnome, and
QGIS worked just fine with it. The package is included in the repositories,
but the default version is a bit outdated (version 1.4, I think). But to
get a more recent version, you need just add the repositories indicated for
the correspondent version of Ubuntu, in the project page.

As I prefer KDE to Gnome, later I changed to OpenSUSE, but then had
problems installing QGIS. Today I'm using Kubuntu 11.10.

Regards,
Kerick


> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:56:38 +0200
> From: Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?
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> Hi!
>
> Having been an ubuntu user for a long time, I do not like ubuntu
> versions > 10.04 LTS, even after introducing the necessary tweaks to
> get something similar to the classic gnome. I feel ubuntu is heading
> towards simple
> desktops for office users, not convenient for technical and scientific
> work. Perhaps it's time to change
> to another linux distribution.
>
> I would like to know if anybody has experience on installing qgis et
> al (grass, gdal, otb, saga, sextante...)
> on linuxmint, i.e. would the very useful ubuntugis repo be appropriate.
>
> Also, perhaps some exchange of opinions among linux users of qgis
> could make most of us converge
> towards the same distribution (i.e., perhaps linuxmint is not the
> right choice, debian, scientific linux, or just
> remaining in ubuntu would be better), which would be very convenient.
>
> Thanks for your inputs,
>
> Agus
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:54:12 +0200
> From: Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi Agus!
>
> I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now
> and I am very satisfied with it.
> Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too
> much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something I
> use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as plain
> debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are a
> bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE
> based on debian testing ..
> I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything
> you want to do..
> So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take
> linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity -
> but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, with
> newer software from mint..
> (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I
> am really satisfied with it)
> just my 2¢
>
> kind regards
> Werner
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