Justin,
You have downloaded the precompiled binary version. You can check out the instructions for using that version - see the README file in the directory you downloaded grass from, or if you wish to compile yourself, go back to the download page:
and follow the link for Source Code for Grass5.0beta.
Good luck,
Malcolm
Malcolm, I re- tarred the grass tarball in the /opt/grass5sources directory. The tar -xvf command did not uncompress a directory called grass5.0beta10 in the /opt/grass5sources directory. It did make the following directories: bin, bwidget,dev,documents,driver,etc,fonts,include,lib,man,scripts,tcltkgrass,and txt. There is a file called grass5 in the directory but it is only a file of an unkown type. What am I doing wrong? Is there a problem with the gzip file I downloaded? Thanks, Justin S. Malcolm Blue wrote: > Justin, > > If you gunzipped and untarred the beta 10 files correctly, they should > be in a directory called grass5.0beta10 directly under the directory > where you ran the tar command. > > I assume that you followed the directions, and, substituting the beta > version number, did something like: > gunzip grass5.0beta10.tar.gz > tar -xvf grass5.0beta10.tar > > This should have created a subdirectory called grass5.0beta10 . If > you typed these commands correctly you should see a long list of files > being extracted from the tar file - this takes a while. > > Then, instead of the instruction listed in the README file: > cd grass5.0beta > just do > cd grass5.0beta10 > > Look at the INSTALL file in that directory for further information. > > Malcolm > > > >> Hello GRASS list: >> >> I am a new user hoping to learn the hydro simulation modeling capabilities of >> GRASS as well as its spatial stat components. I am attempting to install GRASS >> 5.0 beta10 to a RedHat7.0 linux box. I have gunzipped and tared the files and am >> ready to install, except I don't know where to run the ./configure and make >> install commands. I cannot find the grass5.0beta directory as documented. Where >> would this directory be? I assume in the same one as the other stuff. Anyways I >> would appreciate your help. >> >> Justin A Saarinen >> MS Candidate >> University of Florida Geography >> Gainesville, Florida USA >> >>