[Qgis-user] QGIS "full" builds

[Ari Meyer]

Thanks, Jurgen, but on that download page it still says clearly:  In the
installer choose *Advanced Install* and select *qgis-ltr-full* to install
the *long term release*.

Is that a mistake?  Maybe they can add your clarifications on the download
page, as it's confusing.
Ari

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 3:54 AM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> 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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