[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems with 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries

[Agustin Lobo]

Just clarifying I  was updating through the update manager of ubuntu,
not through the deb files.
Agus

2011/12/1 Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
> I think I misunderstood the problem, the ubuntugis-unstable repos only
> allows 1 version of qgis installed at a time.
>
> If you need to uninstall qgis-1.7.0 before upgraging to 1.7.2, then
> there surely must be a problem with the upgrade process in the .deb?
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>>>
>>> shouldn't qgis be packaged in such a way to avoid multiple (minor)
>>> versions of QGIS?
>>>
>>> i.e. change the package names to  1.7 instead of 1.7.0 / 1.7.1 / 1.7.2 ?
>>>
>>> There really is no need to have the old packages around, especially
>>> with this issue.
>>>
>>
>> I respectfully disagree.  It's not that the old packages need to be around
>> it's that they are
>> out there already.
>> People have them some people either can't or won't be
>> able to upgrade
>> them and when those people have questions it's important that the developers
>> and others
>> know exactly what version of the software is being discussed.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Etienne
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Noli Sicad<nsicad at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> reproduced the problem by installing on another machine with ubuntu
>>>>> 10.04 . Running qgis from the command line I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> alobo at delia:~$ qgis
>>>>> Warning: loading of qgis translation failed
>>>>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
>>>>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed
>>>>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
>>>>> Warning: Couldn't load Python support library: Cannot load library
>>>>> /lib/qgispython: (/lib/libqgispython.so: cannot open shared object
>>>>> file: No such file or directory)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, you have to install
>>>>
>>>> - python-qgis 1.7.2~Lucid1
>>>> - python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~Lucid1
>>>>
>>>> If you upgrade from other version (e.g. 1.7.0), you have to remove
>>>> first the old version then install 1.7.2.
>>>>
>>>> Noli
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