[GRASSLIST:2920] multiple installs of GRASS

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Hi,

Can I have two versions of GRASS (5.0 and 5.3) installed at the same time, and if not, will GRASS5.3 simply overwrite 5.0 or do I need to uninstall somehow. I am planning on trying the 5.3 binary provided by R. Greenwood since I have no idea how to compile the sources.

Thanks.

Martin

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Martin du Saire wrote:

Hi,

Can I have two versions of GRASS (5.0 and 5.3) installed at the same time, and if not, will GRASS5.3 simply overwrite 5.0 or do I need to uninstall somehow. I am planning on trying the 5.3 binary provided by R. Greenwood since I have no idea how to compile the sources.

Thanks.

Martin

It should not be a problem. By default, it will install into /usr/local/grass53. You can start it with "grass53". "grass5" will still launch your current version of grass.

Regards,
Rich

--
Richard Greenwood
www.greenwoodmap.com

3

Have 5.3 up and running, and I have even figured out the GUI (nice), but is there some way to also use the command-line from within the GUI. For example I cannot set the -z flag in r.patch?

Martin

At 08:08 AM 3/12/2004 -0700, you wrote:

Martin du Saire wrote:

Hi,
Can I have two versions of GRASS (5.0 and 5.3) installed at the same time, and if not, will GRASS5.3 simply overwrite 5.0 or do I need to uninstall somehow. I am planning on trying the 5.3 binary provided by R. Greenwood since I have no idea how to compile the sources.
Thanks.
Martin

It should not be a problem. By default, it will install into /usr/local/grass53. You can start it with "grass53". "grass5" will still launch your current version of grass.

Regards,
Rich

--
Richard Greenwood
www.greenwoodmap.com

4

Martin du Saire wrote:

Have 5.3 up and running, and I have even figured out the GUI (nice), but is there some way to also use the command-line from within the GUI. For example I cannot set the -z flag in r.patch?

Martin

If you start the GUI with "tcltkgrass&" or "tcltkgrass &" then you should be able to enter grass commands. The key is to put the "&" at the end of tcltkgrass command. This causes tcltkgrass to be launched but tells the shell not to wait for it to finish.

--
Richard Greenwood
www.greenwoodmap.com

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Have 5.3 up and running, and I have even figured out the GUI (nice),
but is there some way to also use the command-line from within the
GUI.

As Richard mentioned, use the "&" at the end of tcktkgrass and then you
can use both the GUI and CLI.

For example I cannot set the -z flag in r.patch?

Fixed in CVS. Please file a bug/wish report for anything else you find
that is missing so we can fix it.

http://grass.ibiblio.org/bugtracking/bugreport.html

regards,
Hamish