[Ubuntu] Fwd: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems
with 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries
Etienne Tourigny
etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 16:25:26 EST 2011
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From: Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems with
1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries
To: tech at wildintellect.com
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org, ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org
Thanks,
I created a ticket in trac, launchpad does not me file a ticket (and
there isn't much activity there anyway)
http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/ticket/19
Etienne
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> The mailing list is on osgeo:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu
>
> I should probably put that on launchpad somewhere.
>
> Bug reporting should be possible if you have a launchpad account, hmm or
> were we using a trac instance for that. I'll have to go check.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 12/04/2011 11:01 AM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>> I just ran into that same problem myself, using Ubuntu 11.04.
>>
>> I upgraded qgis to 1.7.2 through synaptic, and got the "Could not open
>> CRS database /resources/srs.db<br>Error(14): unable to
>> open database file!" error. I had to uninstall qgis and then
>> re-install to get it working.
>>
>> Where do I file a bug report for ubuntugis packages? The mailing
>> list is not active, and the launchpad bugs page does not let me add a
>> bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntugis).
>> Subscription policy: shows "Restricted Team".
>>
>> Here are my QGis packages, there is no reason for multiple libqgis
>> packages (1.7.0 and 1.7.1).
>>
>> In my opinion. libqgis.1.x.y should be named only "libqgis" for ease
>> of use, and the old versions would not be left around causing this
>> bug.
>>
>> ii libqgis1.7.0 1.7.0~natty1
>> Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
>> libqgis1.7.1 1.7.1-1~natty1
>> Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
>> libqgis1.7.2 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
>> python-qgis 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> Python bindings to Quantum GISii
>> python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> Python bindings to Quantum GIS -
>> architecture-independent filesii qgis
>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> Geographic Information System (GIS)ii qgis-common
>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii qgis-plugin-grass
>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> GRASS plugin for Quantum GISii qgis-plugin-grass-common
>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> GRASS plugin for Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii
>> qgis-providers 1.7.2-1~natty1
>> collection of data providers to Quantum
>> GISii qgis-providers-common
>> 1.7.2-1~natty1 collection of data
>> providers to Quantum GIS - architecture-independent files
>>
>> Regards,
>> Etienne
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>> I think another way to phrase the question is why doesn't the deb (FYI
>>> packages via the update tools are deb files) have a conflict rule that
>>> removes the old version?
>>>
>>> So if you have
>>> libqgis1.7.2
>>> there should be a conflict rule saying to remove other versions of
>>> libqgis1.7.0 libqgis1.7.1
>>>
>>> It's a little more work to maintain but solves both issues of knowing
>>> exactly which version a user has and cleaning up on upgrade.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 11/30/2011 09:27 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>>> Just clarifying I was updating through the update manager of ubuntu,
>>>> not through the deb files.
>>>> Agus
>>>>
>>>> 2011/12/1 Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
>>>>> I think I misunderstood the problem, the ubuntugis-unstable repos only
>>>>> allows 1 version of qgis installed at a time.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you need to uninstall qgis-1.7.0 before upgraging to 1.7.2, then
>>>>> there surely must be a problem with the upgrade process in the .deb?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> shouldn't qgis be packaged in such a way to avoid multiple (minor)
>>>>>>> versions of QGIS?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i.e. change the package names to 1.7 instead of 1.7.0 / 1.7.1 / 1.7.2 ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There really is no need to have the old packages around, especially
>>>>>>> with this issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I respectfully disagree. It's not that the old packages need to be around
>>>>>> it's that they are
>>>>>> out there already.
>>>>>> People have them some people either can't or won't be
>>>>>> able to upgrade
>>>>>> them and when those people have questions it's important that the developers
>>>>>> and others
>>>>>> know exactly what version of the software is being discussed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Etienne
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Noli Sicad<nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> reproduced the problem by installing on another machine with ubuntu
>>>>>>>>> 10.04 . Running qgis from the command line I get:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> alobo at delia:~$ qgis
>>>>>>>>> Warning: loading of qgis translation failed
>>>>>>>>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
>>>>>>>>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed
>>>>>>>>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
>>>>>>>>> Warning: Couldn't load Python support library: Cannot load library
>>>>>>>>> /lib/qgispython: (/lib/libqgispython.so: cannot open shared object
>>>>>>>>> file: No such file or directory)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, you have to install
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - python-qgis 1.7.2~Lucid1
>>>>>>>> - python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~Lucid1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you upgrade from other version (e.g. 1.7.0), you have to remove
>>>>>>>> first the old version then install 1.7.2.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Noli
>>>
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