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....@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 <dbake...@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<nsi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> reproduced the problem by installing on another machine with ubuntu >>>>>> 10.04 . Running qgis from the command line I get: >>>>>> >>>>>> alobo@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 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user