[GIS] Reinstalling QGIS on Linux Mint

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I've been using Mint for 2 years but am still new to Linux. I had the default QGIS version (2.0 I think) installed and it worked great, but I tried to upgrade and lost even that. After experimenting I finally got rid of these 2 dependency problems

cpp-4.8 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4 is to be installed
gcc-4.8 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4 is to be installed

but when I use sudo apt-get install qgis
I get the error:

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: qgis-providers (= 2.14.22+dfsg-1~trusty1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I don't know how to install 2.14.22+dfsg-1~trusty1, if that's what I'm supposed to do. Since I got rid of the cpp and gcc packages I don't see anything else still broken in syaptic package manager.

I'm lost. My systen is: Thinkpad T410 i5 2.4 Ghz 4GB
Dual boot Mint Cinnamon 17.3 64-bit, Windows 7
kernel 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit)

I'm really not sure where/how to add additional information that Andre requested so I'll put it here. After adding the additional source, key, and trying to install qgis I got: sudo apt-get install qgis
[sudo] password for wayne:
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: libqgis-analysis2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqgis-app2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqgis-core2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqgis-gui2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqgis-networkanalysis2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-qgis (= 1:2.18.17+20trusty-ubuntugis) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: qgis-providers (= 1:2.18.17+20trusty-ubuntugis) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When I ran sudo apt-get install qgis-providers I got:
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-providers : Depends: libqgis-core2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqgis-gui2.18.17 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libspatialite5 (>= 4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Then just now I tried sudo aptitude install qgis
[sudo] password for wayne:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libfcgi0ldbl{a} libgeos-3.4.2{a} libgeos-c1{a} libgsl0ldbl{a}
libjs-jquery{a} libjs-leaflet{a} libqgis-analysis2.18.17{a}
libqgis-app2.18.17{a} libqgis-core2.18.17{a} libqgis-customwidgets{a}
libqgis-gui2.18.17{a} libqgis-networkanalysis2.18.17{a}
libqgis-server2.18.17{a} libqgispython2.18.17{a} libqscintilla2-11{a}
libqscintilla2-l10n{a} libqwt5-qt4{a} libspatialindex3{a}
libspatialite5{a} python-dateutil{a} python-jinja2{a}
python-matplotlib{a} python-matplotlib-data{a} python-psycopg2{a}
python-pygments{a} python-pyparsing{a} python-pyproj{a}
python-pyspatialite{a} python-qgis{a} python-qgis-common{a}
python-qscintilla2{a} python-qt4-sql{a} python-shapely{a} python-tz{a}
qgis qgis-common{a} qgis-providers{a} qgis-providers-common{a}
qt4-designer{a}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
javascript-common liblwgeom-dev libqt4-dev python-egenix-mxdatetime
python-tk qgis-plugin-grass qgis-provider-grass
0 packages upgraded, 39 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 64.2 MB of archives. After unpacking 245 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgeos-c1v5 : Breaks: libgeos-c1 (< 3.4.2-8~) but 3.4.2-4ubuntu1 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

  Keep the following packages at their current version:

1) libgeos-c1 [Not Installed]
2) libqgis-analysis2.18.17 [Not Installed]
3) libqgis-app2.18.17 [Not Installed]
4) libqgis-core2.18.17 [Not Installed]
5) libqgis-customwidgets [Not Installed]
6) libqgis-gui2.18.17 [Not Installed]
7) libqgis-networkanalysis2.18.17 [Not Installed]
8) libqgis-server2.18.17 [Not Installed]
9) libqgispython2.18.17 [Not Installed]
10) libspatialite5 [Not Installed]
11) python-pyspatialite [Not Installed]
12) python-qgis [Not Installed]
13) python-qgis-common [Not Installed]
14) python-shapely [Not Installed]
15) qgis [Not Installed]
16) qgis-providers [Not Installed]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

Sounds tempting to accept, but I will wait for advice

OK, so I said yes and got this:

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages
upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded. Need to
get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

Then I reinstalled the unstable ppa, updated the cache and got:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.domain.com/dists/trusty/InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.domain.com/dists/trusty/Release.gpg
Unable to connect to packages.domain.com:http:

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

I have no idea where

http://packages.domain.com/dists/trusty/InRelease

came from. But I got rid of it, and Halleluja! I am back where I started before I tried to upgrade. I have 2.18 back working again. I think I'll just be happy with 2.18. I dont want to go through this again, and there's nothing I need in later versions.

Best Answer

Strange. I just updated from 2.14.11 to 2.18.17 on Mint 17.3 using https://qgis.org/ubuntugis-ltr trusty main as an additional repo without errors.

Disabling the qgis.org repo, and using only the ubuntugis unstable ppa throws the same error as you got. Seems to be a packaging error.

The dependent package is available for xenial and newer from the main ubuntu repo, not available on my Mint 17.3 (trusty), and not needed.

UPDATE

The dev's have fixed your problem with version 2.14.22+dfsg-1~trusty3.

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[GIS] Broken packages and unmet dependency installation QGIS, PostgreSQL and postgis Ubuntu 14.04

I had faced a similar problem installing qgis. I finally got it installed using aptitude package manager.

Try this first:

sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get -f install.

If that doesn't work try the higher level package manager aptitude.

sudo aptitude install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass

It gives multiple solutions like this and you can select one.

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Downgrade the following packages:                                                                    
1)      libqt4-declarative [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]
2)      libqt4-network [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]    
3)      libqt4-opengl [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]     
4)      libqt4-script [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]     
5)      libqt4-sql [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]        
6)      libqt4-sql-sqlite [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)] 
7)      libqt4-svg [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]        
8)      libqt4-xml [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]        
9)      libqt4-xmlpatterns [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]
10)     libqtcore4 [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]        
11)     libqtdbus4 [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]        
12)     libqtgui4 [4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1~xenialoverlay1~1 (now) -> 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 (xenial)]         


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm-dev{a} libfcgi0ldbl{a} libgl1-mesa-dev{a} libglade2-0{a} libglu1-mesa-dev{a} libjs-jquery-ui{a} libjs-leaflet{a} liblwgeom-dev{a} libqca2{a} libqca2-plugin-ossl{a} libqca2-plugins{a} 
  libqgis-analysis2.18.3{a} libqgis-app2.18.3{a} libqgis-core2.18.3{a} libqgis-customwidgets{a} libqgis-gui2.18.3{a} libqgis-networkanalysis2.18.3{a} libqgis-server2.18.3{a} libqgisgrass7-2.18.3{a} 
  libqgispython2.18.3{a} libqjson0{a} libqt4-dbus{a} libqt4-designer{a} libqt4-dev{a} libqt4-dev-bin{a} libqt4-help{a} libqt4-opengl-dev{a} libqt4-qt3support{a} libqt4-scripttools{a} libqt4-test{a} 
  libqtassistantclient4{a} libqwt5-qt4{a} libspatialindex4v5{a} libx11-xcb-dev{a} libxcb-dri2-0-dev{a} libxcb-dri3-dev{a} libxcb-glx0-dev{a} libxcb-present-dev{a} libxcb-randr0-dev{a} libxcb-render0-dev{a} 
  libxcb-shape0-dev{a} libxcb-sync-dev{a} libxcb-xfixes0-dev{a} libxdamage-dev{a} libxext-dev{a} libxfixes-dev{a} libxshmfence-dev{a} libxxf86vm-dev{a} mesa-common-dev{a} python-cycler{a} python-dateutil{a} 
  python-future{a} python-gdal{a} python-glade2{a} python-httplib2{a} python-jinja2{a} python-markupsafe{a} python-matplotlib{a} python-matplotlib-data{a} python-pygments{a} python-pyparsing{a} 
  python-pyspatialite{a} python-qgis python-qgis-common{a} python-qscintilla2{a} python-qt4{a} python-qt4-sql{a} python-shapely{a} python-sip{a} python-tz{a} python-yaml{a} qdbus{a} qgis qgis-common{a} 
  qgis-plugin-grass qgis-plugin-grass-common{a} qgis-provider-grass{a} qgis-providers{a} qgis-providers-common{a} qt4-designer{a} qt4-linguist-tools{a} qt4-qmake{a} x11proto-damage-dev{a} 
  x11proto-dri2-dev{a} x11proto-fixes-dev{a} x11proto-gl-dev{a} x11proto-xext-dev{a} x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev{a} 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  qt-at-spi 
0 packages upgraded, 88 newly installed, 12 downgraded, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.

[GIS] Install QGIS 3.x on Ubuntu 18.04

The ubuntugis ppa holds only LTR versions, currently QGIS 2.18.28, see https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable/?field.series_filter=bionic.

If you want QGIS 3.4, you can take the https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ repository without any ubuntugis dependencies. You might have to remove any packages you have from ubuntugis before installing.

https://qgis.org/ubuntugis/ has support for bionic as well, but faced some issues recently. The QGIS packages are built against GRASS 7.4.3, but the ubuntugis ppa has meanwhile switched to GRASS 7.6.0. So I don't suggest that at the moment.

The situation is different for Xenial, because the main ubuntu repo for that does not include GDAL 2, which is mandatory for QGIS 3.

UPDATE

Ubuntugis unstable now has QGIS 3.4.14 for bionic.

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