Can't install latest QGIS 2.18.14 with ubuntugis dependencies on Linux Mint 18 (/ubuntu 16.04)

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Author Name: Richard Lang (Richard Lang)
Original Redmine Issue: 17615
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.14
Redmine category:build/install

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Following instructions for debian/ubuntu install (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu).

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable rolled their version of GDAL to 2.2.2 on 23rd Nov, however as of 4th December even the nightly build of the ubuntugis package (https://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly-release/) is still specifying a dependency on GDAL 2.2.1 and therefore failing to install.

Shouldn't the nightly build have picked up the updated dependency change automatically?

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Related issue(s): #25948 (duplicates), #25957 (duplicates)
Redmine related issue(s): 18052, 18061

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[qgib]

Author Name: Richard Lang (Richard Lang)

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See https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/216780/cannot-install-qgis-2-18-from-repository-on-debian-stretch-package-gdal-abi-2 for a workaround - creating a dummy gdal-abi-2-2-1 package.

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Current qgis=1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis depends on gdal-abi-2-2-2

$ apt-cache show qgis=1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis
Package: qgis
Version: 1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: QGIS developers <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>
Installed-Size: 59881
Depends: gdal-abi-2-2-2, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgdal20 (>= 1.8.0), libgeos-c1v5 (>= 3.4.2), libgsl2, libqgis-analysis2.18.14, libqgis-app2.18.14, libqgis-core2.18.14, libqgis-gui2.18.14, libqgis-networkanalysis2.18.14, libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-sql (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), python-qgis (= 1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis), qgis-providers (= 1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis), qgis-common (= 1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis)
Recommends: qgis-plugin-globe, qgis-plugin-grass, qgis-provider-grass
Suggests: gpsbabel
Conflicts: uim-qt3
Homepage: http://qgis.org/
Priority: optional
Section: science
Filename: pool/main/q/qgis/qgis_2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis_amd64.deb
Size: 15162400
SHA256: e350321cb91fc4a45bc5ddd5a79d38f28e0cc456d4f1216ca604844aad08b03d
SHA1: 3129bf29a8f129120eabef3f1c834cb135c123cd
MD5sum: f099f3f9aaf5c522e31fe7fc6e5f5314
Description-en: Geographic Information System (GIS)
 A Geographic Information System (GIS) manages, analyzes, and displays
 databases of geographic information. QGIS supports shape file viewing and
 editing, spatial data storage with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, projection on-the-fly,
 map composition, and a number of other features via a plugin interface. QGIS
 also supports display of various georeferenced raster and Digital Elevation
 Model (DEM) formats including GeoTIFF, Arc/Info ASCII Grid, and USGS ASCII
 DEM.
Description-md5: 49f76973cc4c2bd4a16872b7a79659ad

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed
• resolution was changed from to invalid

[qgib]

Author Name: Richard Lang (Richard Lang)

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Not seeing it reflected in the ubuntugis nightly build as of 4th December

https://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly-release/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages

Package: libqgis-analysis2.18.13
Source: qgis
Version: 1:2.18.13+git20171025+adeb992+24xenial-ubuntugis
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: QGIS developers <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>
Installed-Size: 8293
Depends: gdal-abi-2-2-1, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgdal20 (>= 1.8.0), libgeos-c1v5 (>= 3.4.2), libqgis-core2.18.13, libqt4-network (>= 4:4.6.1), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9)
Replaces: libqgis2.18.13
Homepage: http://qgis.org/
Priority: optional
Section: libs

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Richard Lang wrote:

Not seeing it reflected in the ubuntugis nightly build as of 4th December

https://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly-release/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages

[...]

Check libqgis-analysis2.18.14 - 2.18.13 is the previous point release.

$ curl -s https://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly-release/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages | sed -ne "/^Package: libqgis-analysis2.18.14/,/^$/p"
Package: libqgis-analysis2.18.14
Source: qgis
Version: 1:2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: QGIS developers <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>
Installed-Size: 8297
Depends: gdal-abi-2-2-2, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgdal20 (>= 1.8.0), libgeos-c1v5 (>= 3.4.2), libqgis-core2.18.14, libqt4-network (>= 4:4.6.1), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9)
Replaces: libqgis2.18.14
Homepage: http://qgis.org/
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Filename: pool/main/q/qgis/libqgis-analysis2.18.14_2.18.14+git20171203+ad99686+24xenial-ubuntugis_amd64.deb
Size: 2904122
SHA256: 63190f35bdb19d765b275a82e56ab6c1df6c38231651bb711eb2ade4bca4240b
SHA1: 36cb9f9cb8656ec147736ef432fb218245692517
MD5sum: f5ddd6912622ee03c9267e9945b17638
Description: QGIS - shared analysis library
 QGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) which manages, analyzes and
 display databases of geographic information.
 .
 This package contains the shared analysis library.

[qgib]

Author Name: mesajs - (mesajs -)

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Install is still failing.

https://qgis.org/ubuntugis/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages shows a dependency on gdal-abi-2-2-1.

I note the nightly build for 2.18.14 (see https://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly-release/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages) has dependency on gdal-abi-2-2-2, but I don't want the nightly build.

My setup is Linux Mint 18.3 with the following additional software sources:
deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main

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• status_id was changed from Closed to Reopened

[qgib]

Author Name: Richard Lang (Richard Lang)

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I'd have thought that this was expected. The point releases are generated monthly and you won't see the updates present in the nightly build reflected till the next one is generated.

[qgib]

Author Name: mesajs - (mesajs -)

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Understood. But it does make QGIS unstable, as it is now, something you would expect from the nightly build but not the latest release. Having a working QGIS suddenly disappear off the desktop and not be re-installable for up to a month hardly encourages users.

OK, there is a work around. But my guess is that most QGIS users on Linux Mint are happy using the Software Manager to install applications, but are not into workarounds that require use of the command line.

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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mesajs - wrote:

Understood. But it does make QGIS unstable, as it is now, something you would expect from the nightly build but not the latest release. Having a working QGIS suddenly disappear off the desktop and not be re-installable for up to a month hardly encourages users.

Well, it's not QGIS that is unstable - it's the base you're using. If you use plain ubuntu this wouldn't happen. See note on
https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu.

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• status_id was changed from Reopened to Closed

[qgib]

Author Name: Andrei Bagaev (Andrei Bagaev)

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Seems that I have the same problem:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-qgis : Depends: python-qscintilla2 but it is not going to be installed

Any advice?

Linux Mint 18.3

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• duplicated was configured as Package qgis-plugin-grass on ubuntu repositories #25957

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• duplicated was configured as QGIS 2.18 can no longer be installed on Debian unstable #25948