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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Gert-Jan,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you that works well, with the basic functionality required.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Thayer</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 03:00:36 PM EDT, qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr">From: "Gert-Jan van der Weijden (GISNederland)"<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:gert-jan@gisnederland.nl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gert-jan@gisnederland.nl</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: Thayer Young <<a href="mailto:thayeray@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thayeray@yahoo.com</a>>, QGIS-User Mailinglist<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Most foolproof method for installing on<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Windows 10?<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:334fb634-06d1-0e16-db26-8c0057072a3c@gisnederland.nl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">334fb634-06d1-0e16-db26-8c0057072a3c@gisnederland.nl</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Thayer,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Over the past years my experience with the regular .msi (straight from <br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.qgis.org/nl/site/forusers/download.html) have been better <br></div><div dir="ltr">than the OSGEO4W installer, for the same reasons ("DLL hell" ) you mention.<br></div><div dir="ltr">And that was even on "real" windows machines, not on emulated <br></div><div dir="ltr">Windows-on-a-mac<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Especially if you just need plan QGis, and not the side-tools like <br></div><div dir="ltr">gdal/ogr , grass etc.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Kind regards,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Gert-Jan<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 20-6-2023 15:29, Thayer Young via QGIS-User wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I am wondering if someone can please recommend the installation for <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Windows 10 that has the lowest barrier to success? I need to make a <br></div><div dir="ltr">> recommendation to a client on how to install it on Windows. I had <br></div><div dir="ltr">> trouble a month or so ago with the OSGEO4W installer recently saying <br></div><div dir="ltr">> that I don't have the right DLLs in place, despite my efforts to <br></div><div dir="ltr">> install using the same method I have always used on Windows. I am <br></div><div dir="ltr">> using OSGEO4W to install QGIS on an emulated Windows on an Intel Mac <br></div><div dir="ltr">> that has older versions of QGIS installed. None of the QGIS version <br></div><div dir="ltr">> work anymore for the same reason. Maybe Windows is unhappy with my not <br></div><div dir="ltr">> updating Windows recently enough? I have seen fairly complicated <br></div><div dir="ltr">> looking solutions posted to the Github page for other users with <br></div><div dir="ltr">> similar errors, though not the same DLLs. Thanks in advance for any <br></div><div dir="ltr">> advice. My apologies for not doing more legwork before writing to the <br></div><div dir="ltr">> list.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> -Thayer<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Thayer Young<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Cicada Systems GIS Consulting<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="http://www.cicadagis.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.cicadagis.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">> _______________________________________________<br></div><br></div>
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