Hi,
I’m having some trouble installing the latest stable Grass 6.4.2 on Ubuntu. I’ve un-installed 6.4.1 but if i use the ‘apt-get install Grass’ command it re-installs 6.4.1. I think i may be missing something.
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Paul J. Shapley
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Paul Shapley <p.shapley@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm having some trouble installing the latest stable Grass 6.4.2 on Ubuntu.
I've un-installed 6.4.1 but if i use the 'apt-get install Grass' command it
re-installs 6.4.1. I think i may be missing something.
Apparently Ubuntu(GIS) has not yet updated to the latest GRASS version...
Markus
is it known when Ubuntu and GRASS repos will be updated?
I'm interested in a debian repo providing GRASS 6.4.2
Mraco
Am 27.02.2012 10:42, schrieb Markus Neteler:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Paul Shapley <p.shapley@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm having some trouble installing the latest stable Grass 6.4.2 on Ubuntu.
I've un-installed 6.4.1 but if i use the 'apt-get install Grass' command it
re-installs 6.4.1. I think i may be missing something.Apparently Ubuntu(GIS) has not yet updated to the latest GRASS version...
Markus
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is it known when Ubuntu and GRASS repos will be updated?
I'm interested in a debian repo providing GRASS 6.4.2
could you please try the packages here:
Hi,
As a follow-up on this issue, and as a person who never installed GRASS on
Linux, I wanted to ask the Forum if there is a version of GRASS 6.x that
will run on 32-bit system, which has a similar look to the most recent Unix
interface. I installed 6.4.2 from the US Tier#2 web site of GRASS (the link
gave the date of 2009) but I am sure that the interface looked archaic. It
is important that the version is free of bugs since it will be used for a
workshop designed for beginners. I will appreciate your suggestions.
* I also installed GRASS 7 but there are issues with vector import and basic
analyses.
Bulent
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:59 PM, barikan <bulent.arikan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
As a follow-up on this issue, and as a person who never installed GRASS on
Linux, I wanted to ask the Forum if there is a version of GRASS 6.x that
will run on 32-bit system, which has a similar look to the most recent Unix
interface.
If you install a Linux distro package, it should come in either 64 or 32 bit
depending on your system. Unfortunately some distros are quite lagging
behind with the packaging.
I installed 6.4.2 from the US Tier#2 web site of GRASS (the link
gave the date of 2009)
Can you please indicate the link? Anything which should be fixed?
but I am sure that the interface looked archaic.
Probably you did not start with "-gui" parameter and GRASS used
an old (tcl) setting from a previous run of GRASS on that machine.
Try (later it will remember):
grass64 -gui
It is important that the version is free of bugs since it will be used for a
workshop designed for beginners. I will appreciate your suggestions.
Say "minimized number of bugs" - bugfree software hardly exists.
GRASS 6.4.2 should be very good for teaching, I used in happily in
a course recently.
* I also installed GRASS 7 but there are issues with vector import and basic
analyses.
Please indicate which issues you found (otherwise we cannot fix them).
Markus
Thank you for your input. Yes, I misspoke: I should have said that I was looking for relatively bug-free version of GRASS for Linux. I must also mention that the version of Linux installed on computers is beyond my control since it is a lab maintained by others.
The version the computers are running is Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit ( https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html ).
The “archaic” looking GRASS 6.4 came from
( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable ): they reached this link from the following address
( http://grass.fbk.eu/download/software.php#g64x ). I realize that this is a mirror site in Europe and I think that this last link has some problematic versions of GRASS. I had Windows version (6.4) installed from this address for my class last semester and there were a lot of problems with mapcalc, gregion, and v.in.ogr. I will try finding the link for GRASS 7, which had problems so that it can be fixed.
As for Linux GRASS 6.4 issue: I only typed GRASS in Terminal and GUI came up however, I will try what you suggested (grass64 -gui).
Meanwhile, can anyone suggest a link for GRASS 6.4 for the version of Ubuntu I have to work with?
Thanks,
Bulent
On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:59 PM, barikan <bulent.arikan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
As a follow-up on this issue, and as a person who never installed GRASS on
Linux, I wanted to ask the Forum if there is a version of GRASS 6.x that
will run on 32-bit system, which has a similar look to the most recent Unix
interface.
If you install a Linux distro package, it should come in either 64 or 32 bit
depending on your system. Unfortunately some distros are quite lagging
behind with the packaging.I installed 6.4.2 from the US Tier#2 web site of GRASS (the link
gave the date of 2009)
Can you please indicate the link? Anything which should be fixed?
but I am sure that the interface looked archaic.
Probably you did not start with “-gui” parameter and GRASS used
an old (tcl) setting from a previous run of GRASS on that machine.
Try (later it will remember):grass64 -gui
It is important that the version is free of bugs since it will be used for a
workshop designed for beginners. I will appreciate your suggestions.
Say “minimized number of bugs” - bugfree software hardly exists.
GRASS 6.4.2 should be very good for teaching, I used in happily in
a course recently.
- I also installed GRASS 7 but there are issues with vector import and basic
analyses.
Please indicate which issues you found (otherwise we cannot fix them).
Markus
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Bulent Arikan <bulent.arikan@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for your input. Yes, I misspoke: I should have said that I was
looking for relatively bug-free version of GRASS for Linux. I must also
mention that the version of Linux installed on computers is beyond my
control since it is a lab maintained by others.The version the computers are running is Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit
( https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html ).The "archaic" looking GRASS 6.4 came from
( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable ): they
reached this link from the following address
ok, sorry that Ubuntu didn't update yet to the latest and greated 6.4.2...
We cannot do much about this.
( http://grass.fbk.eu/download/software.php#g64x ). I realize that this is
a mirror site in Europe
The master site is here:
http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software.php#g64x
and I think that this last link has some problematic versions of GRASS.
(note that is unrelated if you go to a mirror or the main site)
I had Windows version (6.4) installed from this address
for my class last semester and there were a lot of problems with mapcalc,
gregion, and v.in.ogr.
Yes. But we have worked on this to make it better and released GRASS 6.4.2
recently:
http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass642.html
"... This release includes over 770 updates to the source code since 6.4.1."
For sure interesting for you.
...
Meanwhile, can anyone suggest a link for GRASS 6.4 for the version of
Ubuntu I have to work with?
You may try the weekly binary snapshot:
http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software.php#g64x
-> Binaries
-> Generic weekly snapshot
I hope it is sufficiently compliant with Ubuntu since it is generated on
a Debian machine. Sooner of later Ubuntu will update as well.
Best
Markus