QGIS is a cross-platform free and open-source desktop geographic information system (GIS) application. Although being cross-platform, level of official support varies from one platform to another. For the highest level of official support, I will recommend Ubuntu for building QGIS application environment.
I have modified the installation process a bit, creating separate sources list file and trusted signing key file, to better fit the design philosophy of APT.
Import QGIS Archive Automatic Signing Key #
sudo mkdir -m755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.qgis.org/downloads/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor --output /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg
Setup Sources #
On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Jammy Jellyfish #
Create file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis-ubuntu-focal.list with following content.
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ jammy main
deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ jammy main
On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Focal Fossa #
Create file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis-ubuntu-focal.list with following content.
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ focal main
deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ focal main
On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Bionic Beaver #
Create file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis-ubuntu-bionic.list with following content.
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ bionic main
deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu/ bionic main
On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Xenial Xerus (Obsolete) #
I want my GDAL to support WMTS, which is not implemented until GDAL 2.1, so I am going to install GDAL from UbuntuGIS repository. With this considered, I’ll just point the QGIS APT source to Latest Release with UbuntuGIS dependencies to get the most out of everything.
Setup QGIS Suite #
Create file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis-ubuntugis-xenial.list with following content.
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntugis/ xenial main
deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntugis/ xenial main
Setup UbuntuGIS Suite #
Where newer version of GDAL resides.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
Install QGIS #
sudo apt update
sudo apt install qgis