<div dir="ltr">Sorry all, replied only to Mike.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:03 PM chris hermansen <<a href="mailto:clhermansen@gmail.com">clhermansen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Mike and list,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM Mike Flannigan <<a href="mailto:mflan@mflan.com" target="_blank">mflan@mflan.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Linux Mint (LM) is a fork of Ubuntu, so LM users<br>
normally use the Ubuntu install commands located here:<br>
<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu</a><br>
<br>
The command on that website that has given me problems is<br>
sudo add-apt-repository "deb <a href="https://qgis.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/debian</a> `lsb_release -c -s` <br>
main"<br>
<br>
People who know more than me say that `lsb_release -c -s` returns<br>
"tricia", which is unknown to the QGIS repo. Only the Linux Mint repo<br>
knows the LM 19.3 nickname tricia. The rest of the world needs to be<br>
given the Ubuntu nickname bionic instead, because LM 19.3 tricia is<br>
based on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic. So they tell me to change that command to<br>
sudo add-apt-repository "deb <a href="https://qgis.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/debian</a> bionic main".<br>
That worked for me.<br>
<br>
"So what" you may say. We say it is for Debian and Ubuntu, not LM.<br>
That is true, but there are apparently more Mint users than either<br>
Ubuntu or Debian users:<br>
<a href="https://distrowatch.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://distrowatch.com/</a><br>
<br>
I just wonder if that line should be changed to<br>
sudo add-apt-repository "deb <a href="https://qgis.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/debian</a> bionic main"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you go look in <a href="https://qgis.org/debian/dists/" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/debian/dists/</a> you will see the following Debian and Ubuntu dists supported:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">bionic/ 22-Nov-2020 18:36 - <br>buster/ 23-Nov-2020 05:01 - <br>cosmic/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - <br>disco/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - <br>eoan/ 24-Oct-2020 12:08 - <br>focal/ 22-Nov-2020 22:37 - <br>groovy/ 23-Nov-2020 00:15 - <br>jessie/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - <br>precise/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - <br>stretch/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - <br>trusty/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - <br>unstable/ 23-Nov-2020 09:05 - <br>xenial/ 08-Aug-2020 20:57 - </span></div><div><br></div><div>As far as Ubuntu goes, bionic = 18.04, cosmic = 18.10, disco = 19.04, eoan = 19.10, focal = 20.04, groovy = 20.10, xenial = 16.04 and precise... wow that's 12.04 which has been unsupported since 2017. Well anyway.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not to mention the Debian users which have the selection of buster, jessie, stretch, trusty and unstable.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not to mention the Mint users using Ulyana which is AFAIK based on Ubuntu 20.04 (focal)?</div></div><div><br></div><div>So probably hardcoding it to refer only to the Ubuntu 18.04 / bionic distro and thereby also satisfying the Mint folks on tricia would cause a lot of surprise to quite a lot of users.</div><div><br></div><div>Also please remember that there are lots of other Ubuntu (and Debian) derivative distros that can likely use the appropriate Ubuntu distro.</div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com<br><br>C'est ma façon de parler.</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com<br><br>C'est ma façon de parler.</div></div>