qgis-providers / libspatialite packaging issue

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Author Name: Gavin Fleming (@gubuntu) Original Redmine Issue: 15431 Affected QGIS version: 2.16.1 Redmine category:build/install

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I did an update of 2.16 and got this error. The system spatialite is v7 but qgis-providers still references v5

Setting up qgis-providers (1:2.16.1+24xenial) ...
/usr/lib/qgis/crssync: error while loading shared libraries: libspatialite.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package qgis-providers (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 qgis-providers

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Not reproducable here.

1. cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main universe
deb http://qgis.org/debian xenial main
1. apt-get install qgis
[...]
Setting up qgis-providers (1:2.16.1+24xenial) ...
Synchronizing CRS database with GDAL/PROJ definitions.
[...]
359 CRSs updated.
[...]
1. dpkg -s qgis-providers | egrep "spatialite|Version"
Version: 1:2.16.1+24xenial
Depends: [...] libspatialite7 (>= 4.0.0), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
1. ldd /usr/lib/qgis/crssync | grep spatialite
    libspatialite.so.7 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspatialite.so.7 (0x00007f4623818000)

The @libspatialite.so.5@ dependency probably comes from something qgis depends on which is outdated for some reason. It shouldn't be in xenial at all.

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[qgib]

Author Name: Gavin Fleming (@gubuntu)

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The problem arose after I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04.

I have now managed to install QGIS (no problem with qgis-providers anymore) after I switched to ubuntugis-unstable and also purged all potential spatialite dependents and reinstalled.

Now QGIS starts but won't load gdal-tools [1] nor Processing [2]

I'm not seeing any option to reinstall or upgrade these plugins so I'm not sure how to solve this.

[1]

Unable to load GdalTools plugin. 
The required "osgeo [python-gdal]" module is missing. 
Install it and try again.

Note: I actually do have python-gdal installed

[2]

Couldn't load plugin 'processing' 

ImportError: libspatialite.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 308, in loadPlugin
    __import__(packageName)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
  File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/__init__.py", line 28, in 
    from processing.tools.dataobjects import *          # NOQA
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
  File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/tools/dataobjects.py", line 37, in 
    from processing.algs.gdal.GdalUtils import GdalUtils
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
  File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing/algs/gdal/GdalUtils.py", line 32, in 
    from osgeo import gdal
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
    mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/GDAL-2.0.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo/__init__.py", line 21, in 
    _gdal = swig_import_helper()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/GDAL-2.0.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo/__init__.py", line 17, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_gdal', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: libspatialite.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Python version: 2.7.12 (default, Jul  1 2016, 15:12:24) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] 
QGIS version: 2.16.1-Nødebo Nødebo, 8545b3b 

Python Path:
/usr/share/qgis/python
/home/gavin/.qgis2/python
/home/gavin/.qgis2/python/plugins
/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/GDAL-2.0.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
/usr/lib/python2.7
/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2
/home/gavin/.qgis2//python
/home/gavin/.qgis2/python/plugins/StreamFeatureExtractor/third_party

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Gavin Fleming wrote:

ImportError: libspatialite.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Still some indirect dependency that still requires @libspatialite.so.5@

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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I have seen that before, and I had a messed/mixed up packages. I removed anything that was related or a dependency of qgis or other spatial packages, re-installed and the problem was gone.

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• category_id was configured as Build/Install

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Closing for lack of feedback, please reopen if necessary.

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• resolution was changed from to not reproducable
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed