If you are running Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) or even 18.04 (bionic) (beware, it’s still alpha ), it is quite easy to install: But you can install and run QGIS 3.0 on Linux. Until now there are no Windows binaries available (as far as I know…). Thanks for reading this article.The last days I was asked a lot, how and where to install the new QGIS 3.

That’s how you install and get started with QGIS 3 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver. Now have fun drawing your geospatial information. You can click on Project and click on New from the dropdown menu to create a new Project in QGIS 3 as marked in the screenshot below. The About page of QGIS shows a lot of information about the QGIS you’ve installed as you can see from the screenshot below. You can click on Help and then click on About from the dropdown menu to check more information about QGIS. Once QGIS 3 loader loaded everything it needs, you should see the main window of QGIS 3 as shown in the screenshot below. You should see a loading window of QGIS 3 as shown in the screenshot below. Don’t import my QGIS 2 settings and click on the Let’s get started! button as marked in the screenshot below. If you’re new to QGIS, then select I want a clean start. If you’ve used QGIS before and you have settings from previous version of QGIS, you should select Import settings from QGIS 2. You should see the following window as shown in the screenshot below. Now you can go to Activities of GNOME 3 desktop environment or Application Menu of other desktop environments and look for qgis and you should be able to find the logo of QGIS Desktop as shown in the screenshot below. The installation process of QGIS 3 is complete at this point.

The download and installation process of QGIS 3 should start. Now press ‘y’ and then press to continue. $ sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass Now you have to import the GPG key of QGIS 3 with the following command: If you’re using nano just press + x once you’ve added the apt line of QGIS 3 to the /etc/apt/sources.list file. This is how it looks like once the apt line of QGIS 3 is added to the /etc/apt/sources.list file. The codename of Ubuntu Bionic Beaver is bionic.Īdd the following line to the top or bottom of the /etc/apt/sources.list file: You have to add QGIS 3’s apt line here.Īs you’re using Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, you will have to add Ubuntu 18.04 specific repository of QGIS 3. Here you can see all the Ubuntu’s default package repository lists or more specifically apt lines. It should look something like the screenshot below. etc/apt/sources.list file should be opened with your editor of choice. Just type in the line number in the left side of each editor and press. It should ask you to choose a text editor.

Sudo apt get install qgis