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Installing QGIS - QGIS Tutorial

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Installing QGIS

- [Instructor] In this video, we will download the QGIS installer and ensure we install the appropriate components to run QGIS on our computer. In this case, we're going to install the Windows edition. So simply go to the download site for QGIS, again it's 3.8.3 Zanzibar edition. So we'll click on the 64 bit. Most computers nowadays are 64 bit, but if you have an older computer you can still run the 32 bit edition. Again, there's older versions as version 3.4 or if you're running a macOS you can download it from here or Linux and so on. In this case we're going to install version 3.8 64 bit. So we're going to download it. Once it's downloaded, you can just double click on the file, say yes to install, Zanzibar in my case, and we'll get prompted. And it's very easy set up in this case, so I hit Next, I Agree. It's going to put it under Program Files, QGIS 3.8. You can choose to install all the data sets. In this case I'm not going to bother installing. It comes with North Carolina, South Dakota, and Alaska. I'm not going to install any of those data sets. I'm just going to install the product. Click Install and it installs all the different DLLs and required programs to get your QGIS up and running and just click Finish to complete the install. Now if you look in your C, Program Files, QGIS 3.8, you'll see that's where it was installed. You'll see all the applications inside there. Now to launch it, you can simply go to your Start and look at your Program Files. It should be under QGIS. You scroll down to Q and there's QGIS 3.8 and we can pick on, oh there's two, so let's pick on that one. It should just install the QGIS 3.8, not all the other products. And there we are. We're inside of the QGIS project, brand new project, and it's installed properly. And so, now that we've installed QGIS we are ready to explore all the amazing GIS features and functionality that QGIS has to offer and it's installed on your PC, so you're ready to go.

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