Many thanks to you and Gastón for the info. Very useful. Installing version
3 on ascii didn't work as you predicted. So update time.
All the best and sorry for top posting.
Jim
On Wed, 6 May 2020, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
> Tue, 5 May 2020 22:32:34 +0100 (BST) - Jim Jackson <jj@???>:
>
> > Hi, I'm seeking advice.
> > I need a more upto date version of QGIS, geographical information system,
> > than is in ASCII - I need a version 3.
> >
> > On the QGIS downloads site ...
> >
> > https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#linux
> >
> > It gives info for adding to sources.list for debian/ubuntu systems. Is
> > there any chance any of those given would work with Devuan?
>
> Sure:
>
> debian buster -> devuan beowulf
> debian jessie -> devuan ascii
>
> Looking at:
> https://qgis.org/debian-ltr/pool/main/q/qgis/
> seems the LTR qgis versions are: version 2 for jessie/ascii, version 3 for
> buster/beowulf...
>
> Adding to your sources.list:
> ~~~
> deb https://qgis.org/debian buster main
> deb-src https://qgis.org/debian buster main
> ~~~
> you could try to install qgis version 3 on ascii, but I dubt you will succeed
> because of dependencies...
>
> Maybe you need to "risk" upgrading to beowulf...
> I dit it a couple of weeks ago: success!!! I had just to manually fix some
> minor details related to MATE new (buggy?) version...
>
> Regards
>
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