Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS on Windows 7
*Jonathan Moules* /Wed Nov 9 06:43:25 PST 2022/ I think most Win 7 users would benefit from simply having a link to whatever the latest release is that works for Win 7. Hi Jonathan, you can open a issue report / feature request on the QGIS Website GitHub repository at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website in order to propose a possible improvement. AFAIK the latest all-in-one OSGeo4W standalone installers that install QGIS with the Python support enabled on Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit) are for QGIS LTR 3.16.16 [1] released on 2022-01-15 and for QGIS 3.18.3 [2] released on 2021-05-15. As written by Jürgen, it is possible to install the latest QGIS LTR 3.22 and QGIS 3.28 versions, with the Python support enabled, using the OSGeo4W network installer on Windows 7 64-bit thanks to a special hack that lets Python 3.9 work on Windows 7 (on which it wouldn't work by default). Anyway please also consider that Microsoft dropped the Windows 7 support some years ago. Best regards. Andrea Giudiceandrea [1] https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.16.16-1-Setup-x86_64.exe - https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.16.16-1-Setup-x86.exe [2] https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.18.3-1-Setup-x86_64.exe - https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.18.3-1-Setup-x86.exe___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS on Windows 7
Hi Jurgen, > Try installing from OSGeo4W, but include the api-ms-win-core-path-HACK package. That should make python work on Windows 7 again (but still only 64bit). I think most Win 7 users would benefit from simply having a link to whatever the latest release is that works for Win 7. Something like 10% of all Windows users are Windows 7 after all - https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide - By my maths that's about 3 times more (in absolute numbers) than there are Linux users. So that's a lot of users who can't readily download QGIS (as it's not clear which one they should be downloading other than "not the latest"). Thanks, Jonathan On 09/11/2022 11:58, Jürgen E. Fischer via Qgis-user wrote: Hi Jonathan, On Wed, 09. Nov 2022 at 09:39:29 +0100, Jonathan Moules via Qgis-user wrote: QGIS requires Windows 8 64 bit or higher because QGIS uses Python 3.9 or later, which is not available for Windows 7 What's the last version that will work on Windows 7? Ideally an LTS. Also, given there are still many millions of Windows 7 users out there, it may be worth linking to it explicitly as well. Try installing from OSGeo4W, but include the api-ms-win-core-path-HACK package. That should make python work on Windows 7 again (but still only 64bit). Jürgen ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS on Windows 7
Hi Jonathan, On Wed, 09. Nov 2022 at 09:39:29 +0100, Jonathan Moules via Qgis-user wrote: > > QGIS requires Windows 8 64 bit or higher because QGIS uses Python 3.9 or > > later, which is not available for Windows 7 > What's the last version that will work on Windows 7? Ideally an LTS. > Also, given there are still many millions of Windows 7 users out there, it > may be worth linking to it explicitly as well. Try installing from OSGeo4W, but include the api-ms-win-core-path-HACK package. That should make python work on Windows 7 again (but still only 64bit). Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Nordenhttps://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on Libera|OFTC signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] QGIS on Windows 7
> QGIS requires Windows 8 64 bit or higher because QGIS uses Python 3.9 or later, which is not available for Windows 7 What's the last version that will work on Windows 7? Ideally an LTS. Also, given there are still many millions of Windows 7 users out there, it may be worth linking to it explicitly as well. Thanks, Jonathan ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
