[GRASS-dev] Making sense of packages for Ubuntu

[Vaclav Petras]

According to what was said it seems to me that we should change:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:grass/grass-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grass7

to:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grass

at:

http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/linux/
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Very_Important_notes

I got another user with conflicting packages after going through those
steps, so I think the current instructions are not working (although if you
have a fresh computer and follow the instructions closely, they work).

It is also not clear to me why we discuss packages so deeply at the wiki
page. Should we just link there the install with "if you want to just
install and not compile use..."? The current state leads you to packages in
case you want tocompile. If the other suggested things pbuilder, debuild,
cowbuilder and `apt-get build-dep` are useful, I don't know I've newer used
them (so they are probably not that useful). I would like to just delete
both Very Important notes and Quick instructions sections as they just
distract from the real stuff below.

Vaclav

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 06/15/2015 05:03 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>
>> 2015-06-15 15:12 GMT+02:00 Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>  Why do I need ubuntugis-unstable for grass-stable? Isn't
>>>> ubuntugis-stable a
>>>>
>>> no, it doesn't seems to be a better choice, check which versions are
>>> provided by ubuntu-stable [1]. It seems to be not maintained so much
>>> (GDAL 1.10), AFAIU only unstable is somehow up-to-date. There will be
>>> someone here who will know more than me I guess.
>>>
>> The focus of the UbuntuGIS team is on the unstable repository, if you want
>> to improve the UbuntuGIS PPAs you should contribute to the team because
>> there is hardly anyone actively contributing to UbuntuGIS these days. The
>> same was true for the Debian GIS team, but both have found at least one
>> new contributor to keep things moving. But there is far more work to do
>> for the few active people to manage, please consider contributing.
>>
>> Questions about the UbuntuGIS PPA should be directed to their list, I
>> don't think any of their contributor are subscribed to this list.
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bas
>>
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>>  Hi,
>
> As Bas mentioned, our focus recently is on UbuntuGIS unstable. The reason
> behind this: due to work been done in DebianGIS, recent Ubuntu releases
> (universe) already include stable versions of most software that was
> maintained in UbuntuGIS stable e.g. gdal , grass etc..
> So our recent efforts are to maintain new package versions in UbuntuGIS
> unstable. At the same time, unstable ppa gets packages that are well tested
> from OSGeoLive ppa, so some of the development happens there these days...
>
> Regarding grass packages:
> DebianGIS took the decision to maintain only one version of grass, so
> grass7 never went upstream, but grass package points to 7.0.
> Before that, both UbuntuGIS and OSGeoLive included both grass (6) and
> grass7 packages. Then, we pulled from DebianGIS, so now UbuntuGIS unstable
> includes grass package that points to 7.0.
> Bottom line: grass (6) is in Ubuntu universe, grass(7) is in UbuntuGIS
> unstable and OSGeoLive ppas. UbuntuGIS stable is not maintained.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos
> Remote Sensing Laboratory
> National Technical University of Athens
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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