[Qgis-user] Ubuntu repository

[Patrick Dunford]

Basically with an older distro like Xenial (as it now is) you are 
getting increasingly limited in choices, with an OS that is updated 
often as Ubuntu is, there are all these different builds to support 
which adds up to a lot of work for a project to build. If you need to 
run an older version of Linux then putting Qgis into a virtual machine 
is an option (with enough RAM in your system).

Any version 3.x requires Ubuntugis on Xenial because of missing files, 
this has been the case since the development in about January 2017.

Ubuntugis has a different release cycle from Qgis as it is maintained by 
a different community. Every so often this lack of synchronisation 
causes something to break.


On 31/07/18 03:44, Daniele Viganò wrote:
> Hi Brock,
>
> it looks like that QGIS 3 on Xenial is available only via the 
> /ubuntugis-unstable/ repo
> as stated by the '*Supported distribution versions*' table in the 
> download page:
>
> Ubuntu
> 18.04    bionic           yes
> 17.10 artful           yes
> 16.04 (LTS)     xenial [5]       yes
> 14.04 (LTS)     trusty [4]       yes
>
> [5]    3.0 and above only available with ubuntugis-unstable (plain 
> xenial lacks GDAL2)
>
> Cheers,
> Daniele
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 5:24 PM Brock Riedell <kbrcbc at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:kbrcbc at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
>     All,
>
>     I believe I've identified an issue with the Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial)
>     QGIS
>     repository.  I planned to install QGIS version 3.2.1 on a spare
>     laptop.
>     I purged the previous version (2.8.6 or thereabouts), and then
>     followed
>     the Ubuntu install instructions, using the repository 'deb
>     https://qgis.org/ubuntu xenial main' (_not_ the ubuntu-ltr
>     repository).
>     The install went fine, but I find I'm running QGIS 2.18.16, not
>     3.2.x.
>     Before I lodge a bug report, can somebody please confirm this
>     behaviour?
>
>     Thanks
>     Brock
>
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