You may have installed Lorenzo's or OpenOSX's GRASS before. I think one of those installed the Spearfish samples and the user/grass folder. Basically, those extras are just for convenience from the packager.
See the GRASS documentation for help setting up GRASS after installation. This build of GRASS now has docs integrated with the OSX help system - open Mac Help from the Finder, then select GRASS from the Library menu. A readme is installed in /Users/Shared.
.grass6rc is not something that must exist for GRASS to run. Create it if you need it. I prefer to use .bash_profile instead, since .grass6rc is loaded *after* the initial mapset selection.
As for the 'grass63' executable, this is embedded in the application bundle, and there is no need to directly run it, this is taken care of when you double-click GRASS-6.3.app. It is possible to run it from a Terminal if you like - it is renamed 'grass.sh' inside the app bundle, in GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/Resources.
On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Ryan Rosario wrote:
Hi,
I am using the binary GRASS.app 6.3 CVS 070530 from the KyngChaos.com website. I am having some difficult getting GRASS 6.3 to install correctly.
I believe in my previous version of GRASS on another system, the installer created the directory "/Users/ryan/grass" for me and put the Spearfish dataset in there. This directory does not exist after installing this new version for some reason. When I start GRASS, I get an error:
WARNING: location <<UNKNOWN>> at GISDBASE </Users/ryan> is not a directory or does not exist.
because /Users/ryan/grass does not exist. There is also no Spearfish dataset anywhere. If I manually create the grass folder, I still get the error b/c Grass doesn't detect it.
For some reason, the .grass6rc file and the executable grass63 will not install.
Am I missing something? I installed all of the frameworks before installing 6.3 but I cannot get it to install completely.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Center for Environmental Statistics
Department of Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles
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