[Qgis-developer] Run stable and master versions of QGIS on Ubuntu

[Alex Mandel]

The only non-compile way I can think of on an Ubuntu box would be to run
a virtual machine. Otherwise you have to compile to avoid package
manager conflicts.

So up to you which is more time/hassle to setup.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 03/10/2014 01:26 PM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> AFAIK, you have to build your own version (preferrably master) with a
> different install prefix (e.g. /home/softdev/), and when you want to use
> that version you need to add relevant paths to PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> I have a shell function that sets this up on demand:
> 
> setup_softdev()
> {
> export SOFT_PREFIX=/home/softdev
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/softdev/lib"
> export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/softdev/lib
> export LD_RUN_PATH=/home/softdev/lib
> export PATH=/home/softdev/bin:$PATH
> export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/softdev/include
> export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/softdev/include
> export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/softdev/include
> export PYTHONPATH=/home/softdev/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
> export GDAL_DATA=/home/softdev/share/gdal
> }
> export -f setup_softdev
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Rémi Bovard <remi.bovard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is there a simple way to run stable and master
>> versions of QGIS on Ubuntu? By simple, I mean - if possible - without
>> compile QGIS from source.
>>
>> For now, as described in doc [1], I edit /etc/apt/sources.list to define
>> which repository to use : http://qgis.org/debian or
>> http://qgis.org/debian-nightly. But doing like this, I cannot run the two
>> versions at the same time.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your answers.
>>
>> Rémi
>>
>> [1] http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#ubuntu
>>