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<p>Hey Dave! <br>
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<p>It's a little bit confusing. There are like three repositories:
stable, unstable, and testing. Testing you don't want (unless you
want to test packages). Typically stable is a bit older. Unstable
is current. Which doesn't really make sense - but that's the way
it is. <br>
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<p>Under my /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory I made a qgis.list
file and put the following in there: <br>
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<p>deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://qgis.org/debian">http://qgis.org/debian</a> xenial
main<br>
deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu</a>
xenial main</p>
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<p>That gets QGIS 2.16.2 and GDAL 2.x. <br>
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<p>It would "sound" nicer if it was testing stable and "fresh"
(which is how libreoffice does it) - but unstable is actually
quite stable for 16.04. <br>
</p>
<p><br>
Randy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/12/2016 11:59 PM, Nyall Dawson
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 13 September 2016 at 13:08, Dave Kimble <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dave.kimble@riseup.net"><dave.kimble@riseup.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 and QGIS 2.8.6 .
Help > Check Version > says there is v2.16.2 ,
but the instructions at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu">http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu</a>
for how to do it are totally baffling.
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<pre wrap="">Hi Dave!
If you're not comfortable with these instructions, I'd probably
suggest sticking with the version provided by your distribution and
wait till QGIS is updated in the repos (ie, with Ubuntu 16.10).
Nyall
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<pre wrap="">I've never had to edit /etc/apt/sources.list before,
and I don't like the look of the example:
deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu</a> xenial main
I don't want an unstable package!,
I've never had to remove a package before installing a more recent version,
do you expect me to remove a working package and replace with one from an
unstable repository?
Normally I would expect to add-apt-repository and update.
When I do that I get lots of ign: lines then
Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository '<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu</a> xenial
Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
details.
E: Failed to fetch
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages</a>
404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
$
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/</a> doesn't have a
/xenial/ folder
Obviously I need some help here, but it really shouldn't be necessary.
Dave
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