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Install and Update QGIS . . . THE EASY WAY!!!
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May 6, 2025
There are two ways to install QGIS. This video demonstrates the easy way to install only the QGIS components you want, and the easy way to update when a new version comes out.
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so let's go over how to install qgis I'm
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on a brand new machine here that has
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never had qgis installed so it's a
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really good opportunity to show you how
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I like to install this from the GetGo
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I'm just going to search
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for qgis here in
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Google and hopefully this runs quickly
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there we go and I'm going to just come
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here and click on
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download and you'll see on the qgis main
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page page if you go to qgis org there
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will be a download option
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there website's taking just a minute to
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load okay so here's the page you come to
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on the download I'm just going to skip
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this and go to the download now you'll
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see a couple of different options
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there's three options for installing one
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is the long-term version for Windows I
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recommend installing the long-term
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version just because uh you won't have
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to worry about updates for quite some
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time uh you can install the latest
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version which give you access to the
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most recent features and most upto-date
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features if you want some of the newer
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features there um and then there's the
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Osgo 4w Network installer with the
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network installer you can install any
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version of qgis and it gives you some
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other options I prefer to use the
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network installer because it gives you
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more granularity over what you install
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and you can update individual components
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of qgis individually as needed so this
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is how I will do it you can use the
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simpler versions if you like to but this
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is going to be pretty simple as well so
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I'm just going to click this to
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install um I'm going to click
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on to download the install right here to
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run it this link
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here and we'll just download this as the
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Osgo 4w
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setup so now that that's installed I'm
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going to go ahead and run the setup
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executable uh let's s the press install
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just to make things easy here and I'll
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show you how we can update this later
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we're going to install the qgis
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long-term release we can also select if
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we want to install GLE gll or grass
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we'll just keep the LTR for now and
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click next we'll accept the license
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terms for any required
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licenses and then we're going to see
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qgis in here um this will take a few
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minutes it's going to install everything
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we need so I'll pause this while we
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install and then I'll come back and show
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you the
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result okay so our installation is
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complete that took about 5 minutes um it
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did ask me if I wanted to update the
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registry and I said yes uh so we going
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to click finish here and then we'll go
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find our qgis install and there it is
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qgis desktop 3.4.1 two and we will open
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this up it'll take just a minute here
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here to open it's opening on my other
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screen so I'll pause this while it goes
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and pull it on
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over okay so qgis is open and there it
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is we are now ready to get started with
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qgis um I told you I would show you how
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this installer can work for updates so
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let's go ahead and demonstrate that now
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as well let we just go ahead and open up
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uh where I saved this so the downloads
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and if I open up my setup executable I
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can come down here I can choose express
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install and I can click next and I can
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choose different things to install here
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and we'll go through and install those
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again I'm going to go back I'm going to
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go to the advanced install let's go next
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let's go and start from the
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internet and let's do just me for now we
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can keep these defaults we'll keep these
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defaults we'll keep this default we'll
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click on OS goo. org for the download
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and now we're going to see options for
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things we can install so we have these
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command line utilities and you'll see
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that by downloading or installing qgis
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we already have some of these installed
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and we could go and we could change
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these versions We could reinstall we
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could install from Source we can keep
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the version we can do a new version we
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can keep the version we have we have a
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lot of options just by clicking on this
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here okay so these are the command line
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tools that were
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installed now I'm going to minimize this
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and I'm going to go to the desktop and
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here's how you can update qgis uh if you
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want to so you can see we have the qgis
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desktop long-term release installed we
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can change this if we would like to um
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we can come down here we have the qg
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isltr full LTR full free we have all
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those things installed let's say that I
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wanted
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to install qgis full um and not the
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LTR or qgs desktop here I could just
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come over here and click on this and get
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version
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3.4.0 and if I click next it's going to
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install that alongside the LTR I'm going
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to skip that um if the LTR were to
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update I could just come in here and I
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could change this version you can see
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the last LTR was 3.16 we could downgrade
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a version there um we could go back
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version so you can see here 3.1 6.12 3.3
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4.11 which is one version before this
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and so this is how we can manage these
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things um directly in this installer I'm
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not going to change anything here now I
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just want you to be aware of this if you
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forget about this and delete it uh you
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can just download the network installer
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again and it will pop up and give you
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your current installs so this is how you
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can work and manage for qgis
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installation we're just going to cancel
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this for
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now yes we want to cancel