[Qgis-user] new Ubuntu-20.04 still not up to date

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Dave,

Concerning Option B.

Use the "Add Shapefile" menu, not "New Shapefile" menu.

The former one adds an existing shapefile to your QGIS project. The 
later one creates a new empty file (and hence asks you if you want to 
overwrite the existing one with data).

Best regards

Matthias


On 4/24/20 3:27 AM, Dave Kimble wrote:
>
> With a clean install of Ubuntu-20.04, I downloaded qgis from the 
> Ubuntu repository.
>
> This is qgis-3.10.4-A .  During the installation I was asked if I 
> wanted my old settings preserved, I said No.
>
> I get different results depending on how I proceed.
>
> A. If I open the application and choose the blank project, add New 
> Shapefile Layer and navigate to "DCDB.shp" I get "The layer already 
> exists, overwrite ?" (which seems wrong for a blank project), answer 
> Cancel. The input file DCDB.shp is written to a file size of 100 bytes 
> from 9.8 MB. This is exactly the same as the problem I was having 
> before, which I eventually gave up on.
>
> B. If I don't open qgis, but simply double-click on "DCDB.shp", it 
> opens qgis and loads the layer, which renders correctly. I can change 
> the polygons' colours based on the TENURE field. I can save the 
> project and close, but on reopening qgis, my project is not presented. 
> If I navigate to the newly created ./gis/Lot11.qgz it opens as a blank 
> project with no layers.
>
> At qgis.org I see that you released qgis-3.12 on 17 April 2020, less 
> than a week before Ubuntu-20.04 was due to be released.
>
> At https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu , 
> I cannot understand what you mean by "To have newer versions, you have 
> to add alternative software repositories, by adding one of the 
> deb-lines below to your /etc/apt/sources.list file." There are no deb 
> lines below. There are 15 URLs.
>
> Please help.
>
> Dave
>
>
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