[GRASSLIST:5436] Newcomer Q:Missing libraries on OS X

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Hi,
I am trying to install GRASS, and have used the GRASS complete download for OS X from http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/download.htm
but I don't know if my libraries have been installed; I can't find a grasslib folder on my computer anywhere.

I don't know if GRASS is working right or not because I am new, but in the tutorial it crashes when trying to import .shp files.

Thank you in advance,

Matt Sakals, PAg, GIT
Sustainable Forest Management Laboratory
University of British Columbia
mailto:msakals@interchg.ubc.ca
http://sustain.forestry.ubc.ca/home.html
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Hi,

I am having problems with rasters after doing an update in GRASS 57:

r.mapcalc mapa2=mapa1*4
ERROR:G_open_raster_new: no temp files available

after that i update also the gdal library but it does not work

thank you in advance

Marta

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On 1/19/05 8:30 AM, “Matt Sakals” msakals@interchange.ubc.ca wrote:

Hi,
I am trying to install GRASS, and have used the GRASS complete download for OS X from http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/download.htm
but I don’t know if my libraries have been installed; I can’t find a grasslib folder on my computer anywhere.

Matt,

If you have run the install program for the grass libraries in Lorenzo Moretti’s GRASS complete, they are probably OK. They are located in /usr/local/grasslib. This is a ‘hidden’ directory on a Mac. You can check it by either…

  1. Using the terminal program and entering

cd /usr/local/grasslib
ls

  1. Selecting ‘Go to folder’ from the ‘Go’ menu in the finder. Enter /usr and press ‘Go’
    You should be able to navigate to /usr/local/grasslib then.

I don’t know if GRASS is working right or not because I am new, but in the tutorial it crashes when trying to import .shp files.

You don’t say which version of GRASS you are using. But I recommend using GRASS 6.0.0beta1. It is posted on my mirror site for Lorenzo’s files. I do NOT recommend using 5.7.0 because it is problematic. GRASS 5.4 is fine also, but 6.0 does more and generally does it more better. You should have no trouble importing a *.shp file using v.in.ogr in GRASS 6.0.

Hope this helps.

Michael

C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
PO Box 872402
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

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