GRass and Super User Status

GRASS GRASS user
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Hello,

I have asked this question before and apologise before hand to all of you who
are bored of reading this.

I have GRass4.1 unpacked and patched in a subdirectory that I own but in a
directory owned by 'root'.

When I try to run setup I get the message saying that I need to be a super user
to run it, but if I try and run setup.3_22 I can go through the set up process
although I get compilation errors .

My questions are how can I run setup, and what is the difference between setup
and setup.3_22 ?

I have changed all the permissions in my subdirectory to be globally accessible
but no luck. Does this mean that Grass has to installed at root or solely in a
directory structure I own?

Also the alpha binaries out on ftp site , can these be directly run once unpacked ? I was under the impression from the installation manual that they can .

Thank you for your help and patience

Jeremy

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According the the Installation Guide, you must creat the software
directory ($GIS) and data directory ($GISDBASE) & then
chown grass $GIS $GISDBASE. GIS & GISDBASE must be set to real
directories (e.g., /usr/grass4.1 & /usr/grass.data). This may be the
problem, since there is a differenec betw changing permission & changing
ownerships of directories & files. The above instructions came prior to
running GISGEN. Hope this helps.

-- Bill Voigt