[Qgis-user] QGIS on Windows 7

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Jonathan,

On Wed, 09. Nov 2022 at 09:39:29 +0100, Jonathan Moules via Qgis-user wrote:
> > QGIS requires Windows 8 64 bit or higher because QGIS uses Python 3.9 or
> > later, which is not available for Windows 7
 
> What's the last version that will work on Windows 7? Ideally an LTS.
 
> Also, given there are still many millions of Windows 7 users out there, it
> may be worth linking to it explicitly as well.

Try installing from OSGeo4W, but include the api-ms-win-core-path-HACK package.
That should make python work on Windows 7 again (but still only 64bit).


Jürgen

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