[Qgis-user] QGis and developpement version

[Nathan Woodrow]

>
> Unless you compile from
> source, you can not have 1.8 and 1.9 on the same computer.


This is not really right.  Using OSGeo4W you can install 1.8 and 1.9 and
run them at the same time.  I'm doing it now.  In fact I tell people to do
it all the time in order to test stuff for us.

- Nathan


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>wrote:

> Am 17.03.2013 15:08, schrieb Ramon Andiñach:
>
>  Hi Oni,
>>
>> (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I get anything wrong).
>>
>> It is on the website. 1.9 is the development version, aka master. Not
>> sure what sort of computer you want to put QGIS on, so try one of
>> these: Win:
>> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/**quantum-gis/wiki/Download#13-**Master<http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Download#13-Master>
>>
>
> You are right that the installation is described on the website, but it is
> far more complicated than the QGIS Lisboa 1.8.0 standalone installer. For
> non-tech people, the OSGeo4W setup procedure is a kind of blocker.
>
> Same for ubuntu: If you did not use ppa's before, you will only get the
> old 1.7.4 version, or 1.8.0 with ubuntugis. I tried the suggestions for
> Master on the website, but finally got around with this tutorial:
> <http://qgismalaysia.blogspot.**de/2012/04/ubuntu-1204-qgis-**
> 1990-installation.html<http://qgismalaysia.blogspot.de/2012/04/ubuntu-1204-qgis-1990-installation.html>
> >
>
>
>  Unless you compile from
>> source, you can not have 1.8 and 1.9 on the same computer.
>>
>
> Having a Windows laptop, I had no problem installing Lisboa standaolne and
> OSGeo4W Master in parallel. To use Ubuntu, I installed Virtual Box, one
> machine with the stable Ubuntu 12.04 and QGIS 1.8.0 from ubuntugis, and a
> second with Ubuntu 12.10 and Qgis Master according to the tutorial above.
> But it took me several weekends to get all running. That's not quite
> "user-friendly", I think.
>
>
> Greetings,
> André Joost
>
>
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