Opening QGIS Python console from Linux command prompt

Question

I am trying to run on a remote Linux cluster a PyQGIS python script I wrote, after managing to run my script locally, but I am having trouble setting up things in the Linux server.

To run the script locally, I followed the steps indicated in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35622661/import-qgis-modules-into-python-anaconda/67447061#67447061 which comprise running

import sys
sys.path

on the Python console of QGIS GUI. However, I cannot open the QGIS GUI in the Linux cluster. T

Is there any way I could open the QGIS Python console directly from the Linux command prompt?

I already installed QGIS in a conda environment on the Linux cluster (it is QGIS version 3.18.3).

Answer 1

This may help. See this link for running QGIS processing scripts from a command line without having to open a QGIS GUI.

Here I place a script called start.py in my home directory in Ubuntu. The contents of start.py are

print('QGIS Python ran this')

Then, from a terminal I type:

$qgis_process run start.py

This returns QGIS Python ran this in the terminal. It also returned text stating that start.py is not a valid Processing script but I suspect you will not get that message if your script is valid.