[QGIS-Developer] Automatically install and update plugins

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:10 PM <Bauer.Josef at swm.de> wrote:

> Hi Allesandro,
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> thank you for the answer. That sounds very promising. I think that is what
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> But can you tell me what exact Python API we have to use? I can’t find
> anything related to that topic in the API documentation [0] (we are using
> the LTR version QGIS 3.4).
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Yeah, there is not much QGIS core API for plugins management, it's mainly
done in the Python side:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/python/pyplugin_installer/installer.py




> [0] https://qgis.org/pyqgis/3.4/index.html
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> Tanks und kind regards,
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> *Von:* Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 6. November 2019 11:50
> *An:* Bauer.Josef extern IT-DS-TS <Bauer.Josef at swm.de>
> *Cc:* QGIS Developer Mailing List <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [QGIS-Developer] Automatically install and update plugins
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> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:38 AM <Bauer.Josef at swm.de> wrote:
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> Dear QGIS Developer,
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> we have written some plugins that we would like to be installed and
> updated automatically (without any user interaction). We have also setup an
> internal plugins server. We can install the plugins from our plugin server
> manually, but is there also the possibility to install and update them
> without any user interactions (we have pre-configured the plugins in the
> QGIS3.ini)?
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> basically, you need to create a custom startup py file and deploy it (it
> can also live on a network share), the startup script will contain the
> instructions (using the QGIS python API)
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> to upgrade the plugins you need automatically.
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> See the links for some more information:
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> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/intro.html#the-startup-py-file
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> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#deploying-qgis-within-an-organization
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> Hope this helps.
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> Alessandro Pasotti
> w3:   www.itopen.it
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