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Installation troubles?

If you are looking for information on installing QGIS on all available platforms, we have prepared a comprehensive guide for you:

Installation guide

Documentation

QGIS has a lot of documentation. All of the core documentation (user manual, developer handbooks etc.) is available in English. Some documents such as the user guide are also available in other languages.

You will find documentation for every QGIS Long Term Release (LTR) on the respective documentation website.

Get involved and help us write a better documentation.

For users (QGIS 3.34):

Desktop User Guide
QGIS Training manual
Gentle Intro to GIS
Server Guide

For documentation writers (QGIS 3.34):

Documentation Guidelines

For developers (QGIS 3.34):

PyQGIS cookbook (for plugins and scripting)
PyQGIS - QGIS Python Api documentation
C++ API documentation
Building QGIS from Source

For download (QGIS 3.34):

PDF of the manuals
HTML zip of the manuals

For users (QGIS 3.38):

Desktop User Guide
QGIS Training Manual
Gentle Intro to GIS
Server Guide/Manual

For documentation writers (QGIS 3.38):

Documentation Guidelines

For developers (QGIS 3.38):

PyQGIS cookbook (for plugins and scripting)
C++ API documentation
PyQGIS - QGIS Python Api documentation
Building QGIS from Source

For download (QGIS 3.38):

PDF of the manuals
HTML zip of the manuals

We are still updating (not translating yet) the documentation for releases newer than QGIS 3.38. We call this version ‘QGIS Testing’ and the documentation can be found here:

QGIS testing
QGIS 3.22 Documentation
QGIS 3.16 Documentation
QGIS 3.10 Documentation
QGIS 3.4 Documentation
QGIS 2.18 Documentation

Support

The QGIS community offers a wealth of excellent websites with support forums.

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