[GRASS-user] Grass Installation on mac - not working

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Dear GRASS community,

I am new to GRASS and have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I followed the instructions in http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass and installed the following:
1-) GDAL complete 1.9
2-) Free Type
3-) cairo
4-) PIL
5-) GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 (Snow Leopard)
6-) GRASS GDAL PlugIn

Finally I created a folder at home named grassdata and downloaded and decompressed the folder spearfish60.

However, when I want to launch Grass, I get the following message “Terminal got an error: can’t get window 1.(-1728)”, and a terminal window opens. This happens also after I restart the computer. Cannot understand what is missing or where the problem is.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or support, don’t know what to do.

Actually all I want is to view and work with some river basin shape files I downloaded, using an open source GIS.

Thanks very much in advance for your time on this and for your support.

Kind regards,

Erika

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On 2013-02-07 9:16, Erika Zarate Torres wrote:

Dear GRASS community,

I am new to GRASS and have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I followed the
instructions in http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass and installed
the following:
1-) GDAL complete 1.9
2-) Free Type
3-) cairo
4-) PIL
5-) GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 (Snow Leopard)
6-) GRASS GDAL PlugIn

GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 from kyngchaos.com works fine on my Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.

Actually all I want is to view and work with some river basin shape
files I downloaded, using an open source GIS.

I would suggest to start with QGIS, http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis.

Regards, Hermann

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Yes, there appears to be a bug in the system somewhere so that Terminal.app needs to be running (doesn't need a window, just runnning), then GRASS will open a Terminal window on startup. It never bothered me because I work with the Terminal so much I never quit it.

I tried a few ideas when I heard of the problem a while back with no resolution.

On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Erika Zarate Torres wrote:

Dear GRASS community,

I am new to GRASS and have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I followed the instructions in http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass and installed the following:
1-) GDAL complete 1.9
2-) Free Type
3-) cairo
4-) PIL
5-) GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 (Snow Leopard)
6-) GRASS GDAL PlugIn

Finally I created a folder at home named grassdata and downloaded and decompressed the folder spearfish60.

However, when I want to launch Grass, I get the following message "Terminal got an error: can't get window 1.(-1728)", and a terminal window opens. This happens also after I restart the computer. Cannot understand what is missing or where the problem is.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or support, don't know what to do.

Actually all I want is to view and work with some river basin shape files I downloaded, using an open source GIS.

Thanks very much in advance for your time on this and for your support.

Kind regards,

Erika

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Hello Erika

I would also agree with Hermann about starting with QGIS to view your files and work with them, but as I have recently discovered when setting up my labs, the plugins for QGIS on Mac have a lot of dependencies that are not included in the repo version, so follow the instructions here carefully downloading all the extra packages first http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis

GRASS and QGIS interface pretty nicely - I have a couple of QGIS / GRASS labs on my website that might help get you started (although they are specifically designed for archaeology students)

http://www.pushingthesensors.com/teaching-materials/

Good luck!
Rebecca

Rebecca Bennett
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University

From: Hermann Peifer peifer@gmx.eu
To: Erika Zarate Torres erika@goodstuffinternational.com
Cc: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013, 7:55
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Grass Installation on mac - not working

On 2013-02-07 9:16, Erika Zarate Torres wrote:

Dear GRASS community,

I am new to GRASS and have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I followed the
instructions in http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass and installed
the following:
1-) GDAL complete 1.9
2-) Free Type
3-) cairo
4-) PIL
5-) GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 (Snow Leopard)
6-) GRASS GDAL PlugIn

GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 from kyngchaos.com works fine on my Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.

Actually all I want is to view and work with some river basin shape
files I downloaded, using an open source GIS.

I would suggest to start with QGIS, http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis.

Regards, Hermann

grass-user mailing list
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Dear all,

Thank you so much for your quick replies. I tried opening first the terminal and GRASS works now. I also tried installing QGSI and it also works, actually it was quite easy to see the shape files and tables with it. Rebecca’s website is also very useful.

I didn’t try the Xcode but I am fine for the moment for the moment with the other options.

Really thanks for your quick support.

Best regards,

Erika

–
Erika Zarate
Good Stuff International - Switzerland
www.goodstuffinternational.com

On 7 Feb 2013, at 15:29, William Kyngesburye wrote:

Yes, there appears to be a bug in the system somewhere so that Terminal.app needs to be running (doesn’t need a window, just runnning), then GRASS will open a Terminal window on startup. It never bothered me because I work with the Terminal so much I never quit it.

I tried a few ideas when I heard of the problem a while back with no resolution.

On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Erika Zarate Torres wrote:

Dear GRASS community,

I am new to GRASS and have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I followed the instructions in http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass and installed the following:

1-) GDAL complete 1.9

2-) Free Type

3-) cairo

4-) PIL

5-) GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 (Snow Leopard)

6-) GRASS GDAL PlugIn

Finally I created a folder at home named grassdata and downloaded and decompressed the folder spearfish60.

However, when I want to launch Grass, I get the following message “Terminal got an error: can’t get window 1.(-1728)”, and a terminal window opens. This happens also after I restart the computer. Cannot understand what is missing or where the problem is.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or support, don’t know what to do.

Actually all I want is to view and work with some river basin shape files I downloaded, using an open source GIS.

Thanks very much in advance for your time on this and for your support.

Kind regards,

Erika

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William Kyngesburye <kyngchaosatkyngchaosdotcom>
http://www.kyngchaos.com/

“This is a question about the past, is it? … How can I tell that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?”

  • The Ruler of the Universe
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Rebecca Bennett <rabennett@ymail.com> wrote:
...

GRASS and QGIS interface pretty nicely - I have a couple of QGIS / GRASS
labs on my website that might help get you started (although they are
specifically designed for archaeology students)

http://www.pushingthesensors.com/teaching-materials/

Nice! I have taken liberty to add the link to

http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Archeology

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