Hi all,
So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a 'try-if-you-dare' GRASS
on the one computer... a quick web search on how to do multiple grass
installs gave me more info on laying turf than on computing though!
The GRASS wiki has good info on compiling from source, but didn't see
anything clear about how to set up a testing GRASS without it
interfering with my existing, functional one.
Any tips on where/what to read to get this right? am on ubuntu 10.04,
working with GRASS 6.4.1, want to try the 6.4.2RC to check if a few
glitches I am aware of have been sorted out.
I probably read info about this months/years ago but need to update
myself before I blunder on into compiling from source-code!
Regards,
Shane.
Hi,
in fact it’s pretty easy to have multiple grass install on your computer: you just need to follow the instructions on http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Ubuntu, and use the --prefix=/opt/grass64 (or whatever you want)
on my gentoo box, i have a regular grass-6.4.1, and a compiled 6.4-svn, grass-6.5, and grass-7 without any trouble!
cheers,
Sylvain
2011/10/13 Shane Litherland <litherland-farm@bigpond.com>
Hi all,
So, I know one can have a ‘working’ GRASS and a ‘try-if-you-dare’ GRASS
on the one computer… a quick web search on how to do multiple grass
installs gave me more info on laying turf than on computing though!
The GRASS wiki has good info on compiling from source, but didn’t see
anything clear about how to set up a testing GRASS without it
interfering with my existing, functional one.
Any tips on where/what to read to get this right? am on ubuntu 10.04,
working with GRASS 6.4.1, want to try the 6.4.2RC to check if a few
glitches I am aware of have been sorted out.
I probably read info about this months/years ago but need to update
myself before I blunder on into compiling from source-code!
Regards,
Shane.
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Thanks Paulo, I suspected that was the 'right' way to approach it but
was vague on the locations/config.
See how I go with it (a weekend project I think).
-shane.
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 14:49 +0200, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
You can compile your ' working' GRASS in e.g., /usr/local/grass64 and
your 'try-out' GRASS in /usr/local/grass70. You do this setting the
--prefix option when configuring (e.g., ./configure
--prefix=/usr/local/grass64 ...).
To be able to run the working and try-out versions by typing
respectively grass64 and grass70 on the command line, you copy their
executables to the /usr/bin, like below;
ln -s /usr/local/grass64/bin/grass64 /usr/bin/
ls -s /usr/local/grass70/bin/grass70 /usr/bin/
Just realized you already have a functional one installed. In that
case, just install the try-out version as described above, it should
not interfere with the existing one.
Cheers,
Paulo
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Shane Litherland
<litherland-farm@bigpond.com> wrote:
Hi all,
So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a
'try-if-you-dare' GRASS
on the one computer... a quick web search on how to do
multiple grass
installs gave me more info on laying turf than on computing
though!
The GRASS wiki has good info on compiling from source, but
didn't see
anything clear about how to set up a testing GRASS without it
interfering with my existing, functional one.
Any tips on where/what to read to get this right? am on ubuntu
10.04,
working with GRASS 6.4.1, want to try the 6.4.2RC to check if
a few
glitches I am aware of have been sorted out.
I probably read info about this months/years ago but need to
update
myself before I blunder on into compiling from source-code!
Regards,
Shane.
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Hi Sylvain, thanks it must be too late at night... I'd had a quick look
at that site before but missed the "attention dummy, this will work for
you" I was hoping to see in relation to two installs 
-Mind you, after getting a coupla good tips for this, one suggested I
need not bother with 2 versions if merely going from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2RC...
just upgrade.
But maybe it's time I lived on the edge and had a 7.x to tinker with as
well... 
-shane.
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 15:40 +0200, Sylvain Maillard wrote:
Hi,
in fact it's pretty easy to have multiple grass install on your
computer: you just need to follow the instructions on
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Ubuntu, and use the
--prefix=/opt/grass64 (or whatever you want)
on my gentoo box, i have a regular grass-6.4.1, and a compiled
6.4-svn, grass-6.5, and grass-7 without any trouble!
cheers,
Sylvain
2011/10/13 Shane Litherland <litherland-farm@bigpond.com>
Hi all,
So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a
'try-if-you-dare' GRASS
on the one computer... a quick web search on how to do
multiple grass
installs gave me more info on laying turf than on computing
though!
The GRASS wiki has good info on compiling from source, but
didn't see
anything clear about how to set up a testing GRASS without it
interfering with my existing, functional one.
Any tips on where/what to read to get this right? am on ubuntu
10.04,
working with GRASS 6.4.1, want to try the 6.4.2RC to check if
a few
glitches I am aware of have been sorted out.
I probably read info about this months/years ago but need to
update
myself before I blunder on into compiling from source-code!
Regards,
Shane.
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