[Ubuntu] A new QGIS 2.0

[Randal Hale]

I appreciate it. I'll give it a run tonight and see what happens.


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Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
http://www.northrivergeographic.com
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On 02/17/2014 06:10 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 02/17/2014 03:02 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
>> No - I'm only using the Ubuntugis/unstable ppa. I'll probably set up a
>> VM sometime this week and run unstable to get a look at 2.2. I've been
>> doing a lot of work with qgis/gdal and don't  want to run something that
>> might snap with a nightly update.
>>
>> If you install QGIS from the QGIS.org repos it's built against gdal 1.7
>> (unless I'm missing something). That's what made me wonder if there was
>> some sort of update for 2.0.1 I was missing. Spatialite has been a bit
>> odd with me - once you create a database it takes several several
>> minutes to build it. That doesn't happen with QGIS built with gdal 1.7.
>> It's not like it's not building or is corrupt when it finishes - it's
>> just taking a lot longer than I think it should.
>>
>> It could just be me though - It doesn't sound like I'm missing anything.
>> No worries.
> Yes you are missing something.
> There are 3 different qgis.org repos, 2 of which are nightly builds
> The one you want is:
> deb     http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly precise main
> deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly precise main
> deb     http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu
> precise main
>
> This will get you 2.1.x (soon to be 2.2) with gdal 1.10
>
> But yes you could break things since it's the nightly build, of course
> if you get a working nightly build you can just lock it. FYI, if you're
> making a new spatialite db you can just do that on the command line
> before using it in qgis.
>
> Enjoy,
> Alex
>
>> I'll play around with 2.2 some - maybe tonight.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>> -----------------
>> Randal Hale, GISP
>> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
>> http://www.northrivergeographic.com
>> 423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>> <mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
>> twitter:rjhale
>> http://about.me/rjhale
>>
>> On 02/17/2014 05:51 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> On 02/17/2014 02:40 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
>>>> That works. Maybe the bug was with gdal 1.10 or something. It doesn't
>>>> seem to be hanging with 1.7 - Anywho - I appreciate the info.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, if you used the qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly it should be gdal 1.10
>>> Unless you didn't clear out stuff first as the instructions indicate.
>>>
>>>> No worries - I think 2.2 is pretty close...I think.
>>>>
>>>> I was always under the impression (and probably wrong) that 2.0.1 should
>>>> be in stable and 2.2 should be in unstable. I think there was some
>>>> chatter about that on the list at one point. BUT - today I've been wrong
>>>> about most everything (ha).
>>>>
>>> Yes, once released 2.2 goes to unstable, 2.0.1 moves to stable, 1.8 gets
>>> pushed out from anything 12.04 and newer (not sure about 10.04).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Randy
>>>>
>>>> -----------------
>>>> Randal Hale, GISP
>>>> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
>>>> http://www.northrivergeographic.com
>>>> 423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>>>> <mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
>>>> twitter:rjhale
>>>> http://about.me/rjhale
>>>>
>>>> On 02/17/2014 05:19 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>>>> On 02/17/2014 01:24 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
>>>>>> I was wondering if it would be possible (I know there's been a lot of
>>>>>> talk about the repositories) to get a new(er) version of QGIS 2.0.
>>>>>> There's a bug with spatialite (takes minutes to build a database) and
>>>>>> you don't get that with the QGIS repos...but QGIS is compiled against
>>>>>> gdal 1.7.3 and I would really like to keep 1.10. Sorry for asking - I
>>>>>> should be trying to compile my own but that always seems to end not
>>>>>> great.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know QGIS 2.2 is coming out shortly - but it would be pretty cool if
>>>>>> this could be updated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Randy
>>>>>>
>>>>> Short answer is no, reason is that the ppa contains released
>>>>> versions of
>>>>> QGIS. There is no official release greater than 2.0.1
>>>>>
>>>>> When 2.2 comes out it will make it's way into unstable and likely 2.0.x
>>>>> will get moved down to stable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now if you look at the qgis.org download page this is probably what you
>>>>> want "QGIS testing via ubuntugis", "...nightly builds that depend on
>>>>> updated dependencies found in ubuntugis."
>>>>> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#id2
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alex