[GRASS-user] I need help

Raonel · March 6, 2008, 12:18pm

I have already discharged the installer of Grass but I am not able to
install it. I have the manual but I don't understand the form that they
explain as making it

Nikos_Alexandris1 · March 6, 2008, 6:41pm

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:18 +0100, Raonel wrote:
Hi Raonel!

I have already discharged the installer of Grass but I am not able to
install it. I have the manual but I don't understand the form that they
explain as making it

Which operating system do you use?
Which version of GRASS are you trying to install?

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Nikos_Alexandris1 · March 6, 2008, 9:40pm

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:07 +0100, Raonel wrote:

Nikos Alexandris escribió:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:18 +0100, Raonel wrote:
> Hi Raonel!
>
>
>> I have already discharged the installer of Grass but I am not able to
>> install it. I have the manual but I don't understand the form that they
>> explain as making it

[...]

>
I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.

Can you be more specific please?

I assume you try to install GRASS under linux. Which distribution
(version) of linux?

From where did you download GRASS (the

grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar file) and the "grass6install.sh"
script?

You speak spanish?

Hmmm, un poquito! Entiendo mas o menos pero este "foro" es en ingles.
Podria darme mas informacion por favor ( aunque sea en Spanglish)

Philipp_Steigenberg1 · March 6, 2008, 10:09pm

Nikos Alexandris schrieb:

Nikos Alexandris escribió:

Hi Raonel!

I have already discharged the installer of Grass but I am not able to
install it. I have the manual but I don't understand the form that they
explain as making it

[...]

  
      

I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.


Can you be more specific please?

I assume you try to install GRASS under linux. Which distribution
(version) of linux?

>From where did you download GRASS (the 
grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar file)  and the "grass6install.sh"
script?

You speak spanish?

Hmmm, un poquito! Entiendo mas o menos pero este "foro" es en ingles.
Podria darme mas informacion por favor ( aunque sea en Spanglish) ;-)

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Hola Raonel,
bien venido al mundo GRASS
aquí una lista de difusión en español:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-es

quizá vas a encontrar ayuda por allá.

swich to inglés…

You have to unpack the tar.gz by

tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz

Then change into this directory and read the README.
run the .configure.sh
if this works well

you can run

make

and

make install.

If you get errors from the configure.sh., tell them again

Es muy importante que siempre cuando escribes un mail a la lista añades la version de GRASS y el sistema (Ubuntu, suse, debian …) y el numero de la version, para que la comunidad sepa las informaciones básicas. Además usa un sujeto más significativo como “Problems by installing GRASS 6.2.2”. Casi toda la gente que escribe al foro needs help

Mucha suerte
saludos
Philipp

PS: Nikos, Ich dachte Du schreibst aus Griechenland… aber weit gefehlt. Grüße aus Augsburg

Nikos_Alexandris1 · March 6, 2008, 10:24pm

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:09 +0100, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:

[...]

Hola Raonel,
bien venido al mundo GRASS
aquí una lista de difusión en español:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-es

quizá vas a encontrar ayuda por allá.

swich to inglés...

You have to unpack the tar.gz by

tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz

Really,

I couldn't trace this file? For which distro is it?

Then change into this directory and read the README.
run the .configure.sh
if this works well

you can run

make

and

make install.

If you get errors from the configure.sh., tell them again

Es muy importante que siempre cuando escribes un mail a la lista
añades la version de GRASS y el sistema (Ubuntu, suse, debian ...) y
el numero de la version, para que la comunidad sepa las informaciones
básicas. Además usa un sujeto más significativo como "Problems by
installing GRASS 6.2.2". Casi toda la gente que escribe al foro needs
help

Mucha suerte
saludos
Philipp

PS: Nikos, Ich dachte Du schreibst aus Griechenland... aber weit
gefehlt. Grüße aus Augsburg

Hallo Philipp. Ich bin in Freiburg und jeder dritte Erasmus-Student ist
ein Spanier. Also man muss zumindest die basics beherschen

Viele Gruesse,

Nikos

Paul_Kelly · March 6, 2008, 11:22pm

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:

I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.

Can you give the exact command-line you typed, and the exact error mesage (copied and pasted). This would make it a lot easier to debug.

[...]

You have to unpack the tar.gz by

tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz

No that's not correct. grass6install.sh is the binary installer script (generated from binaryInstall.src in the top-level of the GRASS source when you run "make bindist") and it automatically unpacks the archive, so you don't need to do it manually. (The "bin" in the filename indicates that it's a binary distribution, not a source distribution.) It would help if the original poster gave the exact commandline used and exact error message though.

Paul

Paul_Kelly · March 6, 2008, 11:28pm

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Paul Kelly wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:

I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.

Can you give the exact command-line you typed, and the exact error mesage (copied and pasted). This would make it a lot easier to debug.

[...]

You have to unpack the tar.gz by

tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz

No that's not correct. grass6install.sh is the binary installer script

Replying to myself, sorry I missed the very weird looking filename there (tar.gz in the middle and at the end doesn't look right). I think Philipp is right and it is actually a source distribution tarball but has been renamed with bin in the name just to confuse things In which case his instructions about ./configure, make etc. apply. I'm really just guessing though.

Paul

Philipp_Steigenberg1 · March 7, 2008, 7:25am

Paul Kelly wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Paul Kelly wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:

I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.

Can you give the exact command-line you typed, and the exact error mesage (copied and pasted). This would make it a lot easier to debug.

[...]

You have to unpack the tar.gz by

tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz

No that's not correct. grass6install.sh is the binary installer script

Replying to myself, sorry I missed the very weird looking filename there (tar.gz in the middle and at the end doesn't look right). I think Philipp is right and it is actually a source distribution tarball but has been renamed with bin in the name just to confuse things In which case his instructions about ./configure, make etc. apply. I'm really just guessing though.

Paul

Raonel, I would suggest that you download again the actual stable version:

Here http://grass.itc.it/download/index.php
(optionally you can choose the mirror nearest to you here: http://grass.itc.it/mirrors.php)

you can choose your distribution in the binary column. Or you download the sourcecode and compile it by yourself (more complicated):

http://grass.itc.it/grass62/source/grass-6.2.3.tar.gz

suerte
Philipp