On 10/30/18 09:53, Micha Silver wrote: > I must admit I am also confused by the different repositories. I was under > the > impression (for about a year now) that ubuntugis was being phased out, and > QGIS > would be available in the regular ubuntu respositories. I guess this is wrong? > > So what is maintained by qgis.org and what by ubuntugis ? >
QGIS has been in the Ubuntu repos for a long time, however it only get security/minor updates once an Ubuntu release comes out. So basically always it's always old. Example 16.04 users only get 2.8.6 https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=qgis QGIS.org always has the most current releases, built against the dependencies in the stock Ubuntu. This works ok, except when you need newer gdal for more current format support. QGIS.org also has the most current releases built against current releases of dependencies which come from Ubuntugis... Ubuntugis has 2 major repos: Stable - generally older versions of everything in case you need them, want LTR super long or need support for aging releases of Ubuntu. Unstable - mostly the latest version possible, except QGIS which is usually an LTR release (I forget why this happened). Also has support for older distros. Note: OSGeoLive packaging, and Debian packaging both feed into Ubuntugis directly helping to keep all the packages up to date. > > > On 10/28/18 2:48 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: >> Hi Luís, >> >> On Sun, 28. Oct 2018 at 10:01:20 +0000, Luís Moreira de Sousa wrote: >>> None of the UbuntuGIS PPAs contains QGis 3 yet. Is anyone working on this? >>> Or >>> would you rather recommend installing from the official QGis PPA? In the >>> past >>> mixing packages from QGis and UbuntuGIS would lead to disaster. I do this all the time, it occasionally leads to an odd upgrade where you have to wait until GRASS in Ubuntugis is updated, before you allow the QGIS update to install. For some reason it's the best way to get the LTR with up to date gdal. >> Why? We have ubuntugis based qgis repositories. I stopped maintaining QGIS >> builds in the ubuntugis PPA, when we began to support a LTR and the latest >> release in parallel - as ubuntugis can only carry one qgis (at least with the >> current packaging). >> I agree it's absolutely confusing to know what to setup. Not sure how we solve that other than offering the most preferred option as the first instructions. I think we're at the point where 2.18 can move to Ubuntugis stable and 3 can go into unstable. Although until 3.5 comes out 2.18.x still needs to be easily installable with current dependencies. Thanks, Alex >> >> Jürgen >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UbuntuGIS mailing list >> Ubuntu@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu >> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki > _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list Ubuntu@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
