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

[Etienne Tourigny]

I just ran into that same problem myself, using Ubuntu 11.04.

I upgraded qgis to 1.7.2 through synaptic, and got the "Could not open
CRS database /resources/srs.db<br>Error(14): unable to
open database file!" error. I had to uninstall qgis and then
re-install to get it working.

Where do  I file a bug report for ubuntugis packages?  The mailing
list is not active, and the launchpad bugs page does not let me add a
bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntugis).
Subscription policy: shows "Restricted Team".

Here are my QGis packages, there is no reason for multiple libqgis
packages  (1.7.0 and 1.7.1).

In my opinion.  libqgis.1.x.y should be named only "libqgis" for ease
of use, and the old versions would not be left around causing this
bug.

ii  libqgis1.7.0                                      1.7.0~natty1
                                 Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
libqgis1.7.1                                      1.7.1-1~natty1
                             Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
libqgis1.7.2                                      1.7.2-1~natty1
                             Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
python-qgis                                       1.7.2-1~natty1
                             Python bindings to Quantum GISii
python-qgis-common                                1.7.2-1~natty1
                             Python bindings to Quantum GIS -
architecture-independent filesii  qgis
             1.7.2-1~natty1
Geographic Information System (GIS)ii  qgis-common
                  1.7.2-1~natty1
Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii  qgis-plugin-grass
                          1.7.2-1~natty1
     GRASS plugin for Quantum GISii  qgis-plugin-grass-common
                1.7.2-1~natty1
GRASS plugin for Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii
qgis-providers                                    1.7.2-1~natty1
                             collection of data providers to Quantum
GISii  qgis-providers-common
1.7.2-1~natty1                                    collection of data
providers to Quantum GIS - architecture-independent files

Regards,
Etienne

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> I think another way to phrase the question is why doesn't the deb (FYI
> packages via the update tools are deb files) have a conflict rule that
> removes the old version?
>
> So if you have
> libqgis1.7.2
> there should be a conflict rule saying to remove other versions of
> libqgis1.7.0 libqgis1.7.1
>
> It's a little more work to maintain but solves both issues of knowing
> exactly which version a user has and cleaning up on upgrade.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 11/30/2011 09:27 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>> 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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