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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode">With a clean install of
Ubuntu-20.04, I downloaded qgis from the Ubuntu repository.
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This is qgis-3.10.4-A . During the installation I was asked if I
wanted my old settings preserved, I said No.
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I get different results depending on how I proceed.
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A. If I open the application and choose the blank project, add New
Shapefile Layer and navigate to "DCDB.shp" I get "The layer
already exists, overwrite ?" (which seems wrong for a blank
project), answer Cancel. The input file DCDB.shp is written to a
file size of 100 bytes from 9.8 MB. This is exactly the same as
the problem I was having before, which I eventually gave up on.
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B. If I don't open qgis, but simply double-click on "DCDB.shp", it
opens qgis and loads the layer, which renders correctly. I can
change the polygons' colours based on the TENURE field. I can save
the project and close, but on reopening qgis, my project is not
presented. If I navigate to the newly created ./gis/Lot11.qgz it
opens as a blank project with no layers.
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At qgis.org I see that you released qgis-3.12 on 17 April 2020,
less than a week before Ubuntu-20.04 was due to be released.
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At <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu">https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu</a>
, I cannot understand what you mean by "To have newer versions,
you have to add alternative software repositories, by adding one
of the deb-lines below to your /etc/apt/sources.list file." There
are no deb lines below. There are 15 URLs.
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Please help.
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Dave
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