[Ubuntu] QGis 3 on UbuntuGIS PPA

[Micha Silver]

On 10/31/18 12:37 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> [plain text would work better for me - also for the mail archive. see
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/2018-October/001773.html]
Oops, I'll try to remember
> Hi Micha,
>
> On Wed, 31. Oct 2018 at 11:18:27 +0200, Micha Silver wrote:
>> So what would be the "best practice" for keeping an ubuntu system updated
>> as far as the GIS stack? QGIS.org + ubuntgis stable? or QGIS.org +
>> ubuntugis unstable? or something else?
> That's up to you and depends on your needs.
>
> You can use the stock qgis packages - but those might be old.
>
> You can use the newer qgis.org packages - but those might lack features,
> because stock ubuntu dependencies are too old.  But it only introduces
> qgis and might avoid conflicts introduced by ubuntugis, if you also use other
> package sources (postgis from postgresql.org, which also requires GDAL &
> friends?).
>
> You can use the ubuntugis qgis package - but that only offers LTR.
>
> You can use qgis.org ubuntugis packages for the latest release, which ubuntugis
> doesn't offer.  For LTR there's not much difference between the qgis packages
> from ubuntugis or qgis.org.


OK that's clearer now, thanks

> What dependencies QGIS needs and what ubuntugis & stock ubuntu offer changes
> over time.  So what's works good now, might not be best tomorrow.
So we've seen :-(
> I use Debian ;)

Right, with buster coming up it might be time to reinstall...


>
> Jürgen
>
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