[Qgis-user] QGIS 3.16 Installation on Linux Mint

[chris hermansen]

Andrea, Mike, list:

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 11:32 AM Andrea Giudiceandrea <andreaerdna at libero.it>
wrote:

> Mike Flannigan-2 wrote
> > People who know more than me say that `lsb_release -c -s` returns
> > "tricia", which is unknown to the QGIS repo.  Only the Linux Mint repo
> > knows the LM 19.3 nickname tricia. The rest of the world needs to be
> > given the Ubuntu nickname bionic instead, because LM 19.3 tricia is
> > based on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic.
> > ...
> > I just wonder if that line should be changed to
> > sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://qgis.org/debian bionic main"
>
> Hi Mike,
> I've used old Linux Mint versions some time ago and I remember the Ubuntu
> codename was in
> /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release
> and/or
> /etc/os-release
>
> DISTRIB_CODENAME / UBUNTU_CODENAME variables respectively.
>

This Stack Exchange article

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/270199/which-version-of-ubuntu-is-my-linux-mint-installation-based-on

offers some good tips, including the one suggested by Andrea as well as the
quite detailed Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint_version_history


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