[Qgis-user] QGIS "full" builds

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Ari,

On Fri, 13. Aug 2021 at 21:07:40 -0500, Ari Meyer wrote:
> One thing that is still unclear to me is the difference between the
> qgis-*full* distributions and the corresponding builds that aren't "full".

> Here is the only thing I could find (very old):

> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/192978/installing-qgis-ltr-or-qgis-ltr-full-with-osgeo4w-or-both
> , but it's still not clear what the difference is.  Do I need *full* to get
> all the *necessary* dependencies?  That doesn't appear to be the case.
> Will *full* install a lot of dependencies we don't necessarily need?
> Unclear.  If I just install qgis-ltr and pick the additional dependencies I
> need, it works.

qgis has all necessary dependencies.

qgis-full is a meta package depends on qgis and has optional dependencies
(grass, saga, ecw, oracle, filegdb, optional python extensions needed by
popular plugins etc.).  And it doesn't have any own files, so the version
number doesn't matter.

qgis-full is also the package selection that the standalone installer is made
from.

> It says in https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html that we should
> just pick qgis-ltr with the new V2 network installer, but we should pick
> qgis-ltr-full with the old V1.

No, it points you to the express targets.  It doesn't point to qgis-ltr-full
anymore, because there's now an express target for QGIS LTR too (which is
qgis-ltr-full).

It just says that you should install qgis or qgis-ltr if you don't want the
proprietary dependencies that come with qgis-*full.


Jürgen

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