[Qgis-user] Ubuntu updating instructions

[Micha Silver]

------ Original Message ------ Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Ubuntu updating 
instructions Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:23:53 +0200 To: Qgis-user From: 
Jürgen E. Fischer
> Hi Randal,
>
> On Tue, 13. Sep 2016 at 00:21:21 -0400, Randal Hale wrote:
>> It's a little bit confusing. There are like three repositories:
>> stable, unstable, and testing. Testing you don't want (unless you
>> want to test packages). Typically stable is a bit older. Unstable is
>> current. Which doesn't really make sense - but that's the way it is.
> Not like it matters much in this case.
>
> We have packages in qgis.org/debian/ against the plain versions of the
> distributions (debian and **ubuntu**) and in qgis/ubuntugis/ packages against
> newer dependencies from - and only from - ubuntugis-unstable.
>
> Looks like it's hard for people to accept that there are also ubuntu packages
> in a directory called debian and that probably makes them jump on the other
> because it has ubuntu in it's name.

I don't think the confusion is between Debian and Ubuntu. Most Ubuntu 
users know that their OS is Debian-based.
The problem lies in that there are three different repos which offer 
QGIS: the base ubuntu packages, qgis.org and the ppa. And the last two 
are split into separate stable, unstable, and testing where "unstable" 
(in keeping with the Ubuntu policy) is actually the current stable package.

>
>> Under my /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory I made a qgis.list file
>> and put the following in there:
>>
>> deb http://qgis.org/debian xenial main
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main
> Why?  That are the packages not based on ubuntugis with the dependencies from
> ubuntugis.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
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