[Qgis-user] Most foolproof method for installing on Windows 10?

[Gert-Jan van der Weijden (GISNederland)]

Hi Thayer,

Over the past years my experience with the regular .msi (straight from 
https://www.qgis.org/nl/site/forusers/download.html) have been better 
than the OSGEO4W installer, for the same reasons ("DLL hell" ) you mention.
And that was even on "real" windows machines, not on emulated 
Windows-on-a-mac

Especially if you just need plan QGis, and not the side-tools like 
gdal/ogr , grass etc.


Kind regards,

Gert-Jan


On 20-6-2023 15:29, Thayer Young via QGIS-User wrote:
> I am wondering if someone can please recommend the installation for 
> Windows 10 that has the lowest barrier to success? I need to make a 
> recommendation to a client on how to install it on Windows. I had 
> trouble a month or so ago with the OSGEO4W installer recently saying 
> that I don't have the right DLLs in place, despite my efforts to 
> install using the same method I have always used on Windows. I am 
> using OSGEO4W to install QGIS on an emulated Windows on an Intel Mac 
> that has older versions of QGIS installed. None of the QGIS version 
> work anymore for the same reason. Maybe Windows is unhappy with my not 
> updating Windows recently enough? I have seen fairly complicated 
> looking solutions posted to the Github page for other users with 
> similar errors, though not the same DLLs. Thanks in advance for any 
> advice. My apologies for not doing more legwork before writing to the 
> list.
>
> -Thayer
>
> Thayer Young
> Cicada Systems GIS Consulting
> http://www.cicadagis.com
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