Bug report #5579
qgis-plugin-grass fails to install from nightly build on Ubuntu Precise
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | GRASS | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Ubuntu | Easy fix?: | No |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | invalid |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 15159 |
Description
I've been updating from nightly builds to get a QGIS compatible with the Ubuntu Precise system libraries. The last time I attempted an update, I got a version conflict for grass641. I worked around the problem - at least to the extent of making QGIS run again without the plugin - by uninstalling the plugin.
On attempting to reinstall the plugin, the error is clearer.
~$ dpkg-query -p qgis-plugin-grass
Package: qgis-plugin-grass
Priority: extra
Section: science
Installed-Size: 2832
Maintainer: Quantum GIS developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Source: qgis
Version: 1.9.90+git20120504+99d41cf~precise1
Depends: qgis (= 1.9.90+git20120504+99d41cf~precise1), qgis-plugin-grass-common (= 1.9.90+git20120504+99d41cf~precise1), libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdal1-1.7.0, libqgis1.8.0, libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), grass641
Size: 1757812
Description: GRASS plugin for Quantum GIS
Quantum GIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) which manages, analyzes
and display databases of geographic information.
.
This plugin enables GRASS data access in the Quantum GIS geographic data
viewer.
Homepage: http://qgis.org/$ sudo apt-get install qgis-plugin-grass
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-plugin-grass : Depends: grass641
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Attempting to downgrade GRASS also fails - 6.4.2.2-precise1 appears
to be the earliest version available from the regular servers.
Is there an alternative way to resolve this conflict short of building
everything (QGIS, GDAL, GRASS, and perhaps even Qt) from source? Have
I done something wrong in the specification of repositories to use?
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
There are no yet packages for QGIS in the ubuntugis/precise repository. If you want to install qgis-dev/1.8 in precise (with GRASS and the plugin) just use the nightly-build repository. You will find directions in the download page.
#2
Updated by Kevin Kenny over 12 years ago
Uhm, I've been installing from the nightly build repository - as it says in the first line of the problem description. But grass641, unsurprisingly, isn't in the nightly build repository (it comes from osgeo.org, not qgis.oprg), and the nightly build requires a version of GRASS (6.4.1) that appears to be older than anything available for Ubuntu Precise from the ubuntugis-unstable repository - which the installation instructions specifically state is required to retrieve GRASS to run the nightlies. The ubuntugis-unstable repository appears to have GRASS 6.4.2.2.
Are you saying that I need to install the -dev package to run QGIS itself? That's a little peculiar. Most applications don't require you to install -dev if you're not planning to compile code for them.
I can't recall ever having asked for the plugin specifically, it came along for the ride when Synaptic installed QGIS. I see it's called out as a 'recommended' package, and I may have given Synaptic the go-ahead to install 'recommended' packages.
$ dpkg-query -p qgis
Package: qgis
Priority: extra
Section: science
Installed-Size: 10361
Maintainer: Quantum GIS developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.9.90+git20120509+d1cb3f3~precise1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdal1-1.7.0, libgsl0ldbl (>= 1.9), libpq5, libproj0, libqgis1.8.0, libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-sql (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.2~2011week36), libqwt5-qt4, libspatialite3 (>= 3.0.0~beta20110817), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), qgis-providers (= 1.9.90+git20120509+d1cb3f3~precise1), qgis-common (= 1.9.90+git20120509+d1cb3f3~precise1)
Recommends: qgis-plugin-globe, qgis-plugin-grass, python-qgis
Suggests: gpsbabel
Conflicts: uim-qt3
Size: 5783656
Description: Geographic Information System (GIS)
A Geographic Information System (GIS) manages, analyzes, and displays
databases of geographic information. Quantum GIS (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.
Homepage: http://qgis.org/
#3
Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 12 years ago
Kevin Kenny wrote:
that appears to be older than anything available for Ubuntu Precise from the ubuntugis-unstable repository - which the installation instructions specifically state is required to retrieve GRASS to run the nightlies. The ubuntugis-unstable repository appears to have GRASS 6.4.2.2.
Please quote the misleading part of the installation instructions. The nightly builds don't use anything of ubuntugis and by installing GRASS from ubuntugis you actually mask ubuntu's GRASS version, that QGIS would need.
#4
Updated by Kevin Kenny over 12 years ago
Thanks for your time, and sorry that I'm being too stupid to install this stuff.
In the nightly repository, I see the following packages.
libqgis-dev, libqgis-1.8.0, libqgis-1.9.90, python-qgis, python-qgis-common, qgis, qgis-api-doc, qgis-common, qgis-mapserver, qgis-plugin-globe, qgis-plugin-globe-common, qgis-plugin-grass, qgis-plugin-grass-common, qgis-providers, qgis-providers-common, qgis-sqlanywhere .
Attempting to install 'qgis' - including the 'recommended' packages as well as the 'required' ones - yields an error, because 'qgis-plugin-grass' has a dependency on 'grass641', which is nowhere to be found in the nightly repository.
Upon getting that error, I reviewed the download instructions at https://issues.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Download and saw a paragraph headed 'GRASS' in the 'Ubuntu' section:
GRASS
If you want the GRASS plugin make sure to install the optional package
sudo apt-get install qgis-plugin-grass
See https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable for more information.
And that cross reference is what pointed me to the ubuntugis-unstable archive. I had been aware of that archive before, because I'd found it necessary to use it to get a working QGIS on Oneiric. Upgrading to Precise, of course, had disabled use of the ubuntugis-unstable archive.
I do not see a 'grass341' package in any of the Ubuntu default archives: where is it that I am expected to find it?
#5
Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
- Resolution set to invalid
Kevin Kenny wrote:
GRASS
If you want the GRASS plugin make sure to install the optional package
sudo apt-get install qgis-plugin-grass
See https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable for more information.
That is meant for the release versions only. The ubuntu versions are hosted on launchpad.
I do not see a 'grass341' package in any of the Ubuntu default archives: where is it that I am expected to find it?
The grass package in precise provides grass641
#6
Updated by Kevin Kenny over 12 years ago
Problem was a corrupted package cache - manually uninstalling and reinstalling dependencies appears eventually to have fixed it.