[Qgis-developer] Re: Windows Installation broken - and cannot uninstall

Alister Hood Alister.Hood at synergine.com
Thu Feb 9 19:47:28 EST 2012


> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:35:20 +0100
> From: Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Qgis-developer] Re: Windows Installation broken - and cannot
>	uninstall
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> >* 2. Is it really so necessary to dissuade people from using the 
> >OSGeo4W*>* "Setup"?*>* - It is much quicker and easier.  E.g. when a 
> >new version of QGIS is*>* released you only need to click through setup 
> >again to update.  You don't*>* need to go to the QGIS website, download 
> >a new installer (which will waste*>* time and bandwidth because it is 
> >bigger - especially since it includes*>* GRASS, which many people would 
> >never use), run the installer, and*>* separately run the uninstaller 
> >for the old version.*>* - The OSGeo4W setup also provides easy access 
> >to other software you might*>* want to use with QGIS (and nightlies in 
> >case you need them :) )*
>
>
> A problem with the osgeo-setup is that the newbye user could run an "install all"  and so install on its machine the web softwares.
> When this was happened , the machine begin to run slow. And the remove of the web software was a bit of panic, expecially from the services.

But there is no option to "install all".  Am I missing something?

Alister



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