[postgis-users] Urgent help needed, messed up my postgis 2.1 server by installing latest QGIS pacake

[Morten Sickel]

Ouch, that's pretty bad ... Could you give some more information on how it
does not work - you are probably right that some dependencies somehow have
been messed up. Did you install postgis and postgres from the usual ubuntu
deps?

(I was recently working with computer systems at the Norwegian
Meteorological services - we never did an upgrade or change of important
systems after lunchtime on thursday - to avoid as far as possible having
fallout from upgrades that caused problems in the weekend ... ;-) )

Morten

Willem Buitendyk skrev:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently sitting on a plane having made a huge mistake yesterday.  I
> have a server that runs constantly, supplying data to clients on a daily
> basis.  The server is Ubuntu 12.04 and I had successfully installed and
> have been running PostGIS 2.1 and Postgresql 9.3 for the last 3 months.
>  Prior to leaving for my vacation I thought it would be great to install
> QGIS so I could remotely view my database.  The problem is the QGIS
> install
> altered my postgis and libgdal1 dependencies.
>
> Here are the commands I issued that got me into this mess:
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis pythin-qgis
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis
>
> sudo apt-get install python-qgis
>
> gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 47765B75
>
> gpg --export --armor 47765B75 | sudo apt-key add -
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
>
> sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass
>
> sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8
>
>
> I am uncertain how to proceeed because I remember something similar
> happening years ago (irony of ironies) and it ended up corrupting my
> Ubuntu
> server when I tried to repair.
>
>
> I'm looking for some sage advise to correct this a painless as possible.
>  Is it safe to perform an apt-get autoremove?
>
> Please help an overstressed dad enjoy his vacation trip to Disney with his
> wife and kids.  I promise I won't go installing packages all willy nilly
> in
> the future.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Willem
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