[Qgis-developer] Dockers for QGIS

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Paolo,

It is relatively easy to have several parallel QGIS versions on Linux, 
if you compile it yourself. You can set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to 
wherever you like, e.g. in your home directory.

You would install into several independent directories and introduce a 
3-line shell script to start the specific version. Something like:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/an/qgis/qgis_2_8/lib
export QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=/home/an/qgis/qgis_2_8
/home/an/qgis/qgis_2_8/bin/qgis

Note that /home/an/qgis should be replaced to wherever you have chosen 
to install.

This is really easy and it helps to work with and test versions directly 
from github.

Greetings,
Andreas

On 19.03.2016 09:46, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using several versions of QGIS:
> * 2.8 for production, especially on the server side
> * 2.14 for normal work
> * dev for experimenting and early qt5-py3 testing.
> I do not want to mess up my clean Debian, so I only use packages.
> As a possible solution to my problem, I'm trying out Tim dockers for QGIS:
> http://kartoza.com/qgis-desktop-in-docker/
> but I have not much success. Is anyone using it?
> Are there simpler, yet clean, alternatives?
> Thanks a lot.