Thanks to Carl and Eric for suggestions.
I tried again, but still GRASS gives "LOCATION_NAME not set" message. So I guess maybe it's a bug in GRASS5 beta 10. ( later, I downloaded and installed GRASS version 4.3, everything works out fine with this version.)
suggestions?
Robert
Original question:
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)
Suggestions:
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--On Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:36 PM -0500 cbsled@ncia.net wrote:
I'm new to GRASS too, so I might be way off...
I believe the directory structure must be:
/GISDBASE/LOCATION_NAME/MAPSET
That is, $LOCATION_NAME must be a subdirectory of $GISDBASE.
If you need to locate it elsewhere for some reason, symlink to it.
Check the grassrc file in your home directory.My installation (compiled on Redhat 6.2) crashes if I try to change the
location or mapset in the tcl/tk pick box that opens on start up. I set
them in my grassrc before starting GRASS.--
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Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net
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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...--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>