Hi, all,
I'm new to Grass 5.0 beta 10, here is what I got:
My operating system is Redhat Linux 7.0, I installed Grass5beta10 binary at /usr/local/grass, and the tutorial "leics" dataset I downloaded from official Grass website was put at /home/username/leics/PERMANENT.
After installation of Grass, I run "grass5" at command line and got promption to input GISDBASE, LOCATION_NAME and MAPSET, since it's just a try, I pressed "Ctrl+C" to exit the system. Later on, when I typed "grass5 /home/username/leics/PERMANENT", Grass initiated and automatically loaded the tcl/tk GUI, but when I tried to do something like "g.list", I got a "LOCATION_NAME not set" error message everytime. But when I typed "set" at command line in Grass, I can see that the LOCATION_NAME has been assigned "leics", and MAPSET assigned "PERMANENT". So I don't know why I got "LOCATION_NAME not set".
Could anybody give me a answer? (Grass 5 manual "startup" section doesn't seem to help much)
Thanks in advance,
Robert
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:06:39AM -0800, Bei Zhang wrote:
Hi, all,
I'm new to Grass 5.0 beta 10, here is what I got:
My operating system is Redhat Linux 7.0, I installed Grass5beta10
binary at /usr/local/grass, and the tutorial "leics" dataset I
downloaded from official Grass website was put at
/home/username/leics/PERMANENT.
After installation of Grass, I run "grass5" at command line and got
promption to input GISDBASE, LOCATION_NAME and MAPSET, since it's just
a try, I pressed "Ctrl+C" to exit the system. Later on, when I typed
"grass5 /home/username/leics/PERMANENT", Grass initiated and
automatically loaded the tcl/tk GUI, but when I tried to do something
like "g.list", I got a "LOCATION_NAME not set" error message
everytime. But when I typed "set" at command line in Grass, I can see
that the LOCATION_NAME has been assigned "leics", and MAPSET assigned
"PERMANENT". So I don't know why I got "LOCATION_NAME not set".
Could anybody give me a answer? (Grass 5 manual "startup" section
doesn't seem to help much)
Try starting grass5 without any command line parameter, set the
gisdbase, location and mapset values (/home/<user>, leics, PERMANENT)
and then key <ESC> <ENTER>. Maybe just the funky mapset initialization
is not happening the other way (bug?) -- there are some shell spawning
tricks GRASS plays...
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>