Compiling different versions is for really dedicated hard core people.
You lose the advantage of a package management system being able to
automatically update the packages when updates are released. Once you
have compiled a version it is fixed in time because it is not able to be
managed by the package management system so when a new release comes out
you have to compile that version, and so on.
This is why I personally recommend some form of virtualisation as being
a more straightforward solution for most people. I used Oracle
VirtualBox on Linux and had a pile of VMs and they don't take up much
disk space, you just need to ensure you have enough RAM on your computer
to be able to allocate a reasonable amount to a VM. The guest OS can be
a very lightweight environment like Lubuntu that doesn't have all the
bells and whistles and eye candy that people might have with vanilla
Ubuntu and doesn't gobble up a lot of system resources.
On 27/12/18 2:52 AM, matteo wrote:
Hi,
I thiink the easiest solution given that you are on Ubuntu, is compiling
QGIS. Then you can have as many independent QGIS versions as you want.
Yes, at the beginning the slope could be hard, but once you know how
then you just go smooth.
Have a look at:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL
Cheers
Matteo
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