QGIS Installers ¶

QGIS is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android and iOS.

We recommend installing the Long Term Release (LTR) packages since our LTR versions undergo more rigorous testing before release and receive at least one year of bug fix updates.

See also the main installers page.

To evaluate the upcoming release and to allow non-developers to support development we also provide testing packages (note the warning).

In the feature frozen phase preceding a release (see Release schedule) these packages are effectively pre-releases, which we strongly urge users to test.

Windows ¶

There are two options for installing on Windows:

Standalone installers ¶

Standalone installers include everything QGIS needs in a single download. Once you have the installer, no internet is required to complete the installation. When a new release is available, you need to download the complete installer again in order to upgrade. For beginners, the standlone installer is probably the easiest way to install QGIS:

The weekly snapshots of the nightly qgis-dev package of OSGeo4W are for users that cannot use OSGeo4W (see below) for some reason or just prefer standalone installers. In the feature freeze phase, theset also act as release candidate installers.

OSGeo4W installer ¶

More advanced QGIS users should use OSGeo4W packages. This installer makes it possible to install several versions of QGIS in parallel and also to do much more efficient updates as only changed components are downloaded and installed with each new release.

The OSGeo4W repository contains a lot of software from OSGeo projects. QGIS and all dependencies are included, along with Python, GRASS, GDAL, etc. The installer is able to install from internet or just download all needed packages beforehand. The downloaded files are kept in a local directory for future installations and could also be used to install offline.

Installation steps are:

• Download OSGeo4W Installer and run it.

• Choose Express Install and select QGIS to install the latest release and/or QGIS LTR to install the long term release.

Alternatively, instead of doing the Express install, you can use the Advanced Install, navigate to the Desktop section and pick one or more of the following packages:

[1] Nightlies are debug builds (including debugging output that can be used by developers to better understand issues with the build).

The packages listed in the above table only install the necessary dependencies needed to run QGIS. Corresponding to those packages there are also meta packages with the suffix -full-free and -full. The -full-free contains additional optional dependencies that some popular (not included in the default QGIS install) plugins use. The -full includes everything from -full-free and also adds proprietary extensions like Oracle drivers, ECW and MrSID.

The Express installs reference the corresponding -full variant and the standalone installers are also made from these OSGeo4W package sets.

Before installing any of the nightly builds note the warnings below.

Linux ¶

Most linux distributions split QGIS into several packages; you’ll probably need qgis and qgis-python (to run plugins). Packages like qgis-grass (or qgis-plugin-grass), qgis-server can be skipped initially, or installed only when you need them.

Below you will find specific instructions per distribution. For most distro’s there are instructions to install QGIS stable and instructions to install a cutting edge QGIS testing build (note the warning).

Debian / Ubuntu ¶

Quickstart ¶

Simply install the latest stable QGIS (3.40.x Bratislava) in your Debian or Ubuntu without having to edit config files.

First install some tools you will need for these instructions:

sudo apt install gnupg software-properties-common

Now install the QGIS Signing Key, so QGIS software from the QGIS repo will be trusted and installed:

sudo mkdir -m755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings  # not needed since apt version 2.4.0 like Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22 or newer
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg https://download.qgis.org/downloads/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

Add the QGIS repo for the latest stable QGIS (3.40.x Bratislava) to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.sources:

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://qgis.org/debian
Suites: your-distributions-codename
Architectures: amd64
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

Update your repository information to also reflect the newly added QGIS one:

sudo apt update

Now, install QGIS:

sudo apt install qgis qgis-plugin-grass

Repositories ¶

Default Debian and Ubuntu software repositories often contain older versions of QGIS.

To have newer versions, you have to add alternative software repositories, by adding one of the deb-lines below to your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.sources file.

Our main repository contains multiple lines of packages for several versions of Debian and Ubuntu based on the dependencies the individual distributions provide.

For Ubuntu we also used to have extra packages in a separate repository that are based on ubuntugis, which held more up-to-date versions of other GIS packages than Ubuntu itself for LTS versions. If you want those you also need to include ubuntugis-unstable ppa in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list file (see ubuntugis documentation).

Lines of packages:

[2] Nightlies are debug builds (including debugging output)

(For more dates see Release Schedule on Road Map)

Supported distribution versions: ¶

[3] only up to 3.38 (bullseye’s GRASS too old)

[4] starting with nightlies after 3.34.12/3.40.0

To use the QGIS archive you have to first add the archive’s repository public key:

wget https://download.qgis.org/downloads/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./qgis-archive-keyring.gpg --list-keys

Should output:

./qgis-archive-keyring.gpg
--------------------------
pub   rsa4096 2022-08-08 [SCEA] [expires: 2027-08-08]
      2D7E3441A707FDB3E7059441D155B8E6A419C5BE
uid           [ unknown] QGIS Archive Automatic Signing Key (2022-2027) <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>

After you have verified the output you can install the key with:

sudo mkdir -m755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings  # not needed since apt version 2.4.0 like Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22 or newer
sudo cp qgis-archive-keyring.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

Alternatively you can download the key directly without manual verification:

sudo mkdir -m755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings  # not needed since apt version 2.4.0 like Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22 or newer
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg https://download.qgis.org/downloads/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

With the keyring in place you can add the repository as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.sources with following content:

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: *repository*
Suites: *codename*
Architectures: amd64
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

Example for the latest long term release for Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy:

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://qgis.org/ubuntu-ltr
Suites: jammy
Architectures: amd64
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

After that type the commands below to install QGIS:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qgis qgis-plugin-grass

In case you would like to install QGIS Server, type:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qgis-server --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests
# if you want to install server Python plugins
apt install python3-qgis

Fedora ¶

Get packages for any Fedora version by typing:

sudo dnf install qgis python3-qgis qgis-grass qgis-server

Default Fedora software repositories often hold older versions of QGIS.

To have newer versions or the latest LTR, you have to add alternative software repositories based on the version you want to install (stable, LTR or testing).

QGIS stable ¶

Enable the repository:

sudo dnf copr enable dani/qgis

After that type the commands below to install QGIS:

sudo dnf install qgis python3-qgis qgis-grass

In case you would like to install QGIS Server (note that it’s not a common practice to install both client and server applications on the same machine), type:

sudo dnf install qgis-server python3-qgis

More information are available at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dani/qgis/

QGIS LTR (Long Term Release) ¶

Enable the repository:

sudo dnf copr enable dani/qgis-ltr

After that type the commands below to install QGIS:

sudo dnf install qgis python3-qgis qgis-grass

In case you would like to install QGIS Server (note that it’s not a common practice to install both client and server applications on the same machine), type:

sudo dnf install qgis-server python3-qgis

More information are available at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dani/qgis-ltr/

NixOS ¶

Latest stable and LTR packages are available in nixpkgs.

Basic Install ¶

Ephemeral use:

nix-shell -p qgis --command qgis

or

nix-shell -p qgis-ltr  --command qgis

Or added to your NixOS configuration.nix so that it becomes part of your system install:

For the LTR:

  environment.systemPackages = [
    pkgs.qgis-ltr
  ];

For latest stable:

environment.systemPackages = [
    pkgs.qgis
  ];

Running with extra python packages: ¶

Because of the atomic nature of NixOS packages, you need to override the package if you want extra python packages to be available to QGIS. For example to run QGIS with numpy, geopandas and rasterio python libraries you can do:

Ephemeral use:

nix-shell -p \
      'qgis.override { extraPythonPackages = (ps: [ ps.numpy ps.future ps.geopandas ps.rasterio ps.debugpy ]);}' \
      --command "qgis"

Or added to your NixOS configuration.nix so that it becomes part of your system install:

{
  config,
  pkgs,
  ...
}: {
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (qgis.override {
      extraPythonPackages = ps:
        with ps; [
          numpy
          geopandas
          rasterio
        ];
    })
    # other packages
  ];
}

SUSE / openSUSE ¶

Latest stable and LTR packages called qgis and qgis-ltr are available in the following repositories:

All packages include GRASS and Python support.

All openSUSE Geo repositories can be found here: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

Mandriva ¶

QGIS stable ¶

Current:

urpmi qgis-python qgis-grass

Slackware ¶

QGIS stable ¶

Packages on https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=qgis

Arch Linux ¶

QGIS stable ¶

QGIS stable is available in Arch Linux official repository : https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qgis/

Install with:

pacman -S qgis

QGIS LTR ¶

QGIS Long Term Release is available in AUR (Arch User Repository).

Install with yaourt or other package manager which supports AUR:

yaourt -S qgis-ltr

For bugs and other behaviour, read comments here : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qgis-ltr/

QGIS testing ¶

QGIS testing is available in AUR (Arch User Repository).

Install with yaourt or other package manager which supports AUR:

yaourt -S qgis-git

For bugs and other behaviour, read comments here : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qgis-git

Flatpak ¶

There is an QGIS flatpak for QGIS Stable available, maintained by the flathub community.

For general Linux Flatpak install notes, see https://flatpak.org/setup/

QGIS on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.qgis.qgis

To install:

flatpak install --from https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.qgis.qgis.flatpakref

Then to run:

flatpak run org.qgis.qgis

To update your flatpak QGIS:

flatpak update

On certain distributions, you may also need to install xdg-desktop-portal or xdg-desktop-portal-gtk packages in order for file dialogs to appear.

Flathub files: https://github.com/flathub/org.qgis.qgis and report issues here: https://github.com/flathub/org.qgis.qgis/issues

Note: if you need to install additional Python modules, because they are needed by a plugin, you can install the module with (here installing the scipy module):

flatpak run --devel --command=pip3 org.qgis.qgis install scipy --user

# NOTE: it is possible you get an error like: "error: runtime/org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15-23.08 not installed" then also do:
flatpak install runtime/org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15-23.08

Spack ¶

Spack is a distro agnostic package manager for Linux, which is developed in the context of high-performance computing.

General info on installing Spack: https://github.com/spack/spack

QGIS package file on Spack: https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/qgis/package.py

To install:

spack install qgis

which builds and installs QGIS and all dependencies from scratch. Afterwards, QGIS can be used via:

spack load qgis

If additional python packages need to be installed, using a Spack environment is recommended. For example:

spack env create myenv
spack env activate -p myenv
spack add qgis py-lz4
spack install

Spack related issues should be reported at: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues

Mac OS X / macOS ¶

Binary packages (installers) ¶

Official All-in-one, signed installers for macOS High Sierra (10.13) and newer can be downloaded from the QGIS download page.

After downloading QGIS, open the DMG file. Drag and drop the QGIS application into the Applications folder. The first launch attempt may fail due to Apple’s security framework.

For macOS Sonoma and earlier: To enable QGIS, command-click on its icon in your Applications folder and select Open in the context menu. A confirmation dialog will display where you need to click the Open button again. This only has to be done once.

For macOS Sequoia and newer: To enable QGIS, command-click its icon in your Applications folder and select Open from the context menu. A warning dialog will appear; click the Done button. Next, navigate to System Settings > Privacy & Security and scroll to the Security section. You should see a message stating that “QGIS” was blocked to protect your Mac. Click Open Anyway. A confirmation dialog will appear; click Open Anyway again. This only has to be done once.

MacPorts ¶

The package management system MacPorts offers both the latest release version (port qgis3) and the long term version (port qgis3-ltr). This will install QGIS with native architecture, Intel x86_64 or Apple ARM. Main software dependencies such as GDAL, PDAL and GRASS GIS are usually the latest version available.

Installing MacPorts and updating it and the ports are made with the Terminal. QGIS is however installed as an app bundle at /Applications/MacPorts/QGIS3.app.

Get information of a port:

sudo port info qgis3

Install port, e.g with GRASS GIS:

sudo port install qgis3 +grass

Update:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated

Old releases ¶

Previous releases of the official installer can be downloaded from https://qgis.org/downloads/macos/.

Previous releases of the kyngchaos installer can be downloaded from https://www.kyngchaos.com/software/archive/qgis/. The oldest installers support macOS 10.4 Tiger.

FreeBSD ¶

QGIS stable ¶

To install QGIS from binary packages type

pkg install qgis

Or to customize compilation options, you can build it from FreeBSD ports

cd /usr/ports/graphics/qgis
make install clean

QGIS LTR ¶

To install QGIS from binary packages type

pkg install qgis-ltr

Or to customize compilation options, you can build it from FreeBSD ports

cd /usr/ports/graphics/qgis-ltr
make install clean

OpenBSD ¶

QGIS Stable

To install QGIS from third-party package

pkg_add qgis

See:

• https://openbsd.app/?search=qgis for -stable OpenBSD
• https://openbsd.app/?search=qgis¤t=on for -current OpenBSD

QGIS Testing warning ¶

Installing from Source ¶

Please refer to the developer installation notes for notes on how to build and install QGIS from source for the different platforms we support.