[Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

[Patrick Dunford]

The issue is, even the latest version of Mint is based on Xenial - you 
don't have the means to upgrade the base.


If I have a later version of Ubuntu or Debian than Xenial I don't need 
to use the ubuntugis repository - problem solved. Qgis do not provide 
the ubuntugis repository so they obviously have limited means to ensure 
the packages there are up to date. So the best solution is not to use 
ubuntugis if there are issues like this.


There is not a guarantee to support every distro out there and the most 
stable option is to use a supported distro.


On 26/09/17 23:27, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote:
> Am 26.09.2017, 10:40 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Dunford 
> <blackwhitekez at gmail.com>:
>
>     There are some issues supporting xenial, are you able to test on a
>     more recent version of Ubuntu or Debian, maybe in a virtual
>     machine. I am going to have a look at my 17.04 vm with the latest
>     2.18 to see.
>
> I wonder why xenial should have support issues, being the LTS-version.
>
>
>
>     I would not recommend Mint - apart from being not an officially
>     supported distro, the most recent version is based on what is now
>     relatively old Ubuntu xenial, because the Mint people are falling
>     behind in development. I switched to Xubuntu to avoid the Unity
>     controversy.
>
> Mint also has updates, so I do not see the point switching to 
> somewhere else. The main problem here is imho that ubuntugis-unstable 
> and the qgis repositories are very often out of sync. But a QGIS 
> without all the bells and whistles from ubuntugis is quite useless for me.
>
> Cheers
> Bernd
>
>
>
>     On 26/09/17 21:36, Micha Silver wrote:
>>     After the recent update to QGIS 2.18.13, GRASS support is gone.
>>     No plugin and no provider.
>>
>>     My apt sources includes:
>>     deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
>>     deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
>>     deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu
>>     xenial main
>>     deb-src
>>     http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu
>>     xenial main
>>
>>     The packages are installed:
>>     $ dpkg -l | grep plugin-grass
>>     ii  qgis-plugin-grass
>>     1:2.18.13+24xenial-ubuntugis                 amd64 GRASS plugin
>>     for QGIS
>>     ii  qgis-plugin-grass-common
>>     1:2.18.13+24xenial-ubuntugis                 all GRASS plugin for
>>     QGIS - architecture-independent data
>>     $ dpkg -l | grep provider-grass
>>     ii  qgis-provider-grass
>>     1:2.18.13+24xenial-ubuntugis                 amd64 GRASS provider
>>     for QGIS
>>
>>     More info:
>>     $ gdalinfo --version
>>     GDAL 2.2.1, released 2017/06/23
>>     $ grass --version
>>     GRASS GIS 7.2.2
>>
>>     Running 'qgis --debug & ' does not show anything unusual.
>>
>>     This is getting tiresome - every few months a routine system
>>     upgrade trashes GRASS support.
>>
>>     Any suggestions are welcome,
>>     Thanks, Micha
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Micha Silver
>>     Ben Gurion Univ.
>>     Sde Boker, Remote Sensing Lab
>>     cell: +972-523-665918
>>
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