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[Alton Teague]

oops - forgot to insert that before editing
/etc/apt/sources.list

I had attempted sudo apt remove qgis which surprisingly said it was
updating a bunch of dependencies.  The system did act as if qgis had
actually been removed before I added the new repository.


On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 9:45 PM Alton Teague <dreamlnd.elect.slvg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> New to qgis. I am still running Ubuntu 16.04-LTS because many applications
> break on 18.04-LTS.
>
> Is there any way to git clone the latest version or download a tarball or
> a complete .deb that just simply installs or updates an older version?
>
> First, someone told me to just
> sudo apt-get install qgis
> It turned out to be version 2.18, and I discovered that a few features he
> had working properly did not work properly on my machine. So I started
> googling for how to get the latest version when he told me had version
> 3.something on his Debian machine.
>
> I think I followed the instructions properly on
> https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu
>
> I edited
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> and added the lines
>
> #QGIS repository
> deb https://qgis.org/ubuntu xenial main
> deb-src https://qgis.org/ubuntu xenial main
>
> Then I attempted
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install qgis python3-qgis qgis-plugin-grass
>
> It complained with an error, "unable to find python3-qgis" (or possibly
> "cannot find python3-qgis") and terminated.
>
> So I shortened it to
> sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass
>
> to try and force it to either complain about missing dependencies, or
> actually go fetch them. However, it completed with no complaints.
> qgis desktop and qgis browser showed up in the installed software list,
> and desktop started without complaining about missing dependencies or
> similar issues.
>
> What launched is QGIS 2.18, with a "helpful" banner across the bottom that
> 3.8.1 is available. This of course took me around the circle again, to the
> same instructions that either I'm getting senile and missed something, or
> there's an error or two in the posted instructions.
>
> So - how do I clean out all the vestiges of qgis 2.18 to try again with a
> clean slate, where it won't just merrily go get 2.18 again from the wrong
> depository? Is there some workaround to gain positive control over which
> version is fetched, e.g. a place to download a complete .deb archive that
> it can be installed from, or a git clone or some other method?
>
> Thanks. I've spent about 4 hours trying to get the later version on this
> machine with no success and finally gave up. So I figured I'd better ask
> the experts what implied step(s) were missed in doing the update.
>
>
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