[Slackbuilds-users] Qgis needs updating

[Benjamin Trigona-Harany]

On 2019-07-17 1:01 p.m., Rich Shepard wrote:
> The SBo repo has qgis version 2.18.18. The current release is 3.8.0 and an
> update is warranted. The new version does not build with the 2.18.18 
> script;
> it fails at HUNK 1.
> 
> Rich

You can't just update QGIS from 2.x to 3.x. It's now based on Qt5 and 
Python 3 and it's non-trivial to upgrade a 14.2 system to accommodate. 
You can try to follow the instructions at 
https://github.com/bosth/qgis3-slackbuild, but note that I haven't 
updated them since the Qt5 SlackBuilds were updated or since the 3.0 series.

I'm using 3.8 on Slackware-current, but you are on your own with 14.2. 
Look for QGIS 3 when 15.0 is released but probably not before then.

Ben