[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #441: Updating the VM

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#441: Updating the VM
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  Reporter:  jsanz        |       Owner:  live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal       |   Component:  LiveDVD                  
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                           
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Comment (by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:2 wildintellect]:
 > A word of caution, we need to be careful if we mix apt
 > and aptitude commands. Reading up aptitude seems overall
 > better for the standard user, but if we go with that we
 > should move all scripts to using it. We'll need to check
 > with some Debian/Ubuntu package pros to make sure this would
 > work for everyone.

 for automated builds apt-get should be used. somewhere in the
 wiki.debian.org LiveHelper pages it explains why, IIRC it has to do with
 aptitude sometimes being too interactive and smart for its own good, and
 the fact that it has a bad habit of trying to install all Recommends
 packages as well.
 {{{
  echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false"' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
 }}}

 > Also, thinking about the [QGIS] Ubuntu script we installed a
 > specific version, however a new one may pop-up an be installed
 > even if we meant to install the old one. So we'll have to watch
 > out for those problems. Shouldn't be an issue if this is run on
 > a fresh vm before anything else is installed.

 yeah, and qgis is broken in the alpha5 RC because of it. A newer
 version was posted to the UbuntuGIS repo and the old version was
 removed. I've now updated install_qgis.sh to the new version number, but
 now that ubuntuGIS is the only extra repo can we now remove the versioning
 so this doesn't happen again?


 Hamish

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