I am sorry to hear of your bad experience with openOSX. I don't know anything about their situation except that they don't seem to have kept up with current GRASS versions. I tried one of their CD's about 9 month's ago. It installed very easily and worked pretty much OK, but there were some minor problems.
Now, I'd suggest that the easiest way to get a very up-to-date version of GRASS is by installing the packages provided by Lorenzo Moretti. His site is located at <http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/> and has all the information you need to install these simple, double-click packages. However, I'd download the packages from one of the fast mirrors.
EUROPE http://rea.ei.jrc.it/netshare/kaplan/grass_mirror/ (Jed O. Kaplan @ JRC)
USA http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_osx/ (my site)
Mine is a few days out of date with Lorenzo's due to holidays here. But I will try to catch up by the end of the week. Then I'll be gone for a few weeks.
These packages are FREE and they work VERY well (though see Lorenzo's note about the July 1 Libraries).
Best of luck.
Michael Barton
On Jul 6, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Multiple recipients of list wrote:
I have bought a copy of Grass as provided by openOSX.com. After a long period of time the CDs (they have sent two and charged two) arrived but after installing there is no application "Grass" on my hardrive. I could see it being installed during installation but disappeared right before installation was finished. None of the provided files could be opened!
I contacted openOSX.com by email but never got any support nor even a single reply to all my emails. Has that dubious company vanished from the market or does anyone know how to get openOSX Grass running?
I have Panter installed and X11 as well…
Andreas / Switzerland
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