If, like me, you tried to process laz/las files (typically #lidar data) with #qgis under recent versions of ubuntu, you might have found out that ubuntu standard repos don't include pdal anymore.

I found a workaround by converting the files to copc using the conda version of pdal, then work with copc.

This morning I learned that there was a much better workaround, thanks to Martin Dobias on github: install qgis from the ubuntugis repos, as they include a pdal package.

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/53348