[Qgis-developer] gusty update problem

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Sun Jan 6 08:39:15 EST 2008


Hi

Yes you have multiple copies of qgis installed.

1) Does explicitly running /usr/bin/qgis work correctly?

2) Please show me the result of:

dpkg -l | grep qgis

Regards

Tim

2008/1/6, mccue at acm.caltech.edu <mccue at acm.caltech.edu>:
>   An installation problem (leaving behind old version of qgis)
>
> Version of ubuntu
>
>   \etc\debian_version
>   lenny/sid
>
> Make certain we are uptodate on qgis
>
>   % sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass
>   Reading package lists... Done
>   Building dependency tree
>   Reading state information... Done
>   qgis is already the newest version.
>   qgis-plugin-grass is already the newest version.
>   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> Run qgis
>
>   % qgis
>   qgis:   error  while  loading  shared  libraries:   libgdal1.3.2.so.1:
>   cannot open shared object file:  No such file or directory
>
> Check out libgdal
>
>   % apt-cache search libgdal
>   libgdal-doc - Documentation for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
>   libgdal1-1.4.0 - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
>   libgdal1-1.4.0-grass - GRASS extension for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Lib
>   libgdal1-dev - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files
>
> Check out qgis location
>
>   % whereis qgis
>   qgis:       /usr/bin/qgis       /usr/lib/qgis      /usr/local/bin/qgis
>   /usr/local/lib/qgis /usr/include/qgis /usr/share/qgis
>
> Likely culprits
>
>   % lws /usr/local/bin/qgis
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3173399 2007-09-17 14:54 /usr/local/bin/qgis
>   % lw /usr/bin/qgis
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2688160 2007-12-21 05:23 /usr/bin/qgis
>
> Check $PATH order
>
>   echo $PATH
>   /home/mccue/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:\
>   /bin:/usr/games:/home/mccue/bin:/usr/software/bin:\
>   /home/mccue/projects/mixmod/MIXMOD/BIN
>
> Test out /usr/bin/qgis
>
>   /usr/bin/qgis  --help
>   Quantum GIS - 0.9.1-Ganymede 'Ganymede' (unknown), plus more stuff
>
> Analysis:   qgis in  /usr/local/bin executed  first  and  is old (9.0)
> version, which doesn't run under gusty but did under feisty,  as 1.3.2
> was the  version of libgdall used  for it.  I'm not  enough of a linux
> geek  to  know  whether  my  upgrade to gusty from feisty  wasn't done
> correctly, or whether the  qgis  install is supposed to remove the old
> version.   If the latter, it should be fixed.  If the former, I should
> know more about linux.
>
> Ken McCue
>
>
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