[Ubuntu] Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems
with 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries
Etienne Tourigny
etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 08:09:31 EST 2011
Yesterday upgraded to 1.7.3, libqgis1.7.2 is still installed but QGis loads ok.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Etienne Tourigny
<etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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