Thanks, Jurgen, but on that download page it still says clearly: In the installer choose *Advanced Install* and select *qgis-ltr-full* to install the *long term release*.
Is that a mistake? Maybe they can add your clarifications on the download page, as it's confusing. Ari On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 3:54 AM Jürgen E. Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ari, > > On Fri, 13. Aug 2021 at 21:07:40 -0500, Ari Meyer wrote: > > One thing that is still unclear to me is the difference between the > > qgis-*full* distributions and the corresponding builds that aren't > "full". > > > Here is the only thing I could find (very old): > > > > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/192978/installing-qgis-ltr-or-qgis-ltr-full-with-osgeo4w-or-both > > , but it's still not clear what the difference is. Do I need *full* to > get > > all the *necessary* dependencies? That doesn't appear to be the case. > > Will *full* install a lot of dependencies we don't necessarily need? > > Unclear. If I just install qgis-ltr and pick the additional > dependencies I > > need, it works. > > qgis has all necessary dependencies. > > qgis-full is a meta package depends on qgis and has optional dependencies > (grass, saga, ecw, oracle, filegdb, optional python extensions needed by > popular plugins etc.). And it doesn't have any own files, so the version > number doesn't matter. > > qgis-full is also the package selection that the standalone installer is > made > from. > > > It says in https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html that we > should > > just pick qgis-ltr with the new V2 network installer, but we should pick > > qgis-ltr-full with the old V1. > > No, it points you to the express targets. It doesn't point to > qgis-ltr-full > anymore, because there's now an express target for QGIS LTR too (which is > qgis-ltr-full). > > It just says that you should install qgis or qgis-ltr if you don't want the > proprietary dependencies that come with qgis-*full. > > > 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 Norden > https://www.norbit.de > QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on Libera|OFTC > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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