Ubuntu 10.4 LTS & Quantum GIS (QGIS) 1.4 (Ubuntu version)

[badaveil]

Can you help me on this?It seems I cannot download qgis directly from the repositories....

Glad to


Copy paste the following commands in a terminal line by line then press ENTER after each line script was done:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jef-norbit/qgis-unstable-ubuntugis-jef
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install qgis

[cespinal]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qgis: Depends: libgdal1-1.7.0 but it is not installable
Depends: libgeos-c1 (>= 3.2.2) but 3.1.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: libqgis1.5.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqwt5-qt4 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: qgis-plugin-grass but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-qgis but it is not going to be installed


Seems I'm falling in a dependency hell

[badaveil]

I had assumed that you hadn't any QGIS or part of QGIS installed and you didn't tell me either but an advise given prior to the script was "Just uninstall your version of qgis (if you have one on your ubuntu)".

I just followed through and everything works fine so I can't answer why it didn't work for you. I'm not a programmer so can't advise terminal wise but my best advise is for you to be a member of QGIS Forum and the QGIS user mailing list of which response from the latter is quicker. Have you been to http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Download#Ubuntu?

[Herman]

It seems like there's a little problem of some kind in the repositories, so maybe wait a while and try again later.

I have a spare fresh new Ubuntu installation I am using for GRUB2 experiments to update my website, so I tried the same commands and I received the same error message.
Then I tried running through the commands most of us use to install software for playing music in case there might be something we need in that repository, Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto and I got even more error messages about packages not being available.

Finally I tried the steps we posted in the first page of this thread and it worked. I don't know why. I think my clumsy way of blundering into it in post #3 doesn't differ substantially from the way badaveil most eloquently summed it up in post#4, just that I used the GUI more. Unless I was just lucky and something in the repositories was fixed at the same time I tried again.
I guess the moral of the story is to just keep trying and you will succeed.

[badaveil]

QGIS site http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Download#Ubuntu recommends:

Ubuntu
Release
Current packages available for jaunty, karmic, lucid and maverick from

sudo apt-get install add-apt-repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo aptitude install qgis

[cespinal]

QGIS site http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Download#Ubuntu recommends:

Ubuntu
Release
Current packages available for jaunty, karmic, lucid and maverick from

sudo apt-get install add-apt-repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo aptitude install qgis

Followed your recommendation. Here is the output when I try to install Qgis from the repos.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  qgis: Depends: libgdal1-1.7.0 but it is not installable
        Depends: libgeos-c1 (>= 3.2.2) but 3.1.0-1 is to be installed
        Depends: libqgis1.5.0 but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: libqwt5-qt4 but it is not going to be installed
        Recommends: qgis-plugin-grass but it is not going to be installed
        Recommends: python-qgis but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I'm really in need of giving QGIS a try...

[badaveil]

cespinal,

I see from the output the last line state "E: Broken packages"

From my understanding, you have to fix broken packages first before you can even think of installing a related application.

So what I can advise is to go to the Synaptic Package Manager then under Edit, select Fix broken packages.

If it got fixed, the status menu bar will state so. Only then repeat the earlier step.

If it still persist, under Synaptic, search QGIS and do a total removal of all related QGIS files then repeat the recommended QGIS download steps

If that still persist, do a total removal of all related QGIS files then repeat download following J.Norbit's repos.

If that still persist, I've run out of options

[cespinal]

Sorry...tried every one of your suggestions.

The funny thing is that I haver never installed qgis...let alone had any qgis installation on my system.

[badaveil]

Then the final advice I can give is for you to subcribe to QGIS user mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Make a query, mention you tried to install QGIS based on :

sudo apt-get install add-apt-repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo aptitude install qgis

and your output was:


Code:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qgis: Depends: libgdal1-1.7.0 but it is not installable
Depends: libgeos-c1 (>= 3.2.2) but 3.1.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: libqgis1.5.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqwt5-qt4 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: qgis-plugin-grass but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-qgis but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Ask for help.

Based on my experience, you should get a reply less than 24 hours.

Best of luck!