[GRASSLIST:569] Grass installation

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Hallo everybody,

I’m Luca, an italian agronomist, (it’s my first message, today I’ ve registered myself also to italian GRASS list).

I’ve two questions:

(1) I know there are some newsgroups about GRASS, but I don’t know why they often don’t work (in a lot of news servers), or are not utilized. anyone know anything about it?
They are:

info.grass.user
info.grass
info.grass.programmer
(the only news server I’have seen they are really provided is:
news.ttnet.net.tr; here everyone can write his messages too (not only read), but noone write on this newsgroups…could we begin?).
Besides the newsgroup I’ve found on Baylor’s GRASS site:
gis.grass.grasslist doesn’t work (I don’t know why) and also does’t work its server “news2.sinica.edu.tw:119”.

I would like to utilize this resources too (it may more simple to get informations about GRASS).

(2) Second problem (my real problem): I’m a beginner…
Yesterday I’ve downloaded GRASS 5.0.2 second time (first was tar.gz, second has been .rpm (grass-5.0.2-2.i386.rpm)).
I hoped raise to install GRASS, but Linux (Mandrake 9.1)
konsole said to me it required some libraries:
-gdal< =1.1.8
-libcrypto.so.2
-libfftw.so.2,
-libgdal.1.1.so,
-libgd.so.1.8,
-libpng.so.2,
-libssl.so.2.

I’ve tried to install more easily making click over the .rpm file, but he sai to me some things:

(a) The signature of the packet was wrong (the signature was made on monday 23.06.2003 with DSA key) - impossible to control the signature: public key not found;
(b)I tried to carry on with installation, but it follows a notice telling that there was a conflict … after they were listed the libraries I listed before and besides an other: libpq.so.2 .
I don’t know what to do… i woul like to learn to utilize GRASS, but I finded very difficult to install it and I’ve found a lot to study it (in italian too), but nothing about installation.
If could be useful, I tell you my PC is a PENTIUM 4, 1.7 GHZ, RAM=640 Mb.
Perhaps difficulties depend I’m a Linux beginner too… I hope anyone can tell me anything about it… after it looks to me not so difficult to learn how to use GRASS.
Greetings to all you of GISGRASS list.

Luca, from Italy

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On 2003-06-30, 15:08 GMT, Luca wrote:

(1) I know there are some newsgroups about GRASS, but I don't know why =
they often don't work (in a lot of news servers), or are not utilized. =
anyone know anything about it?

Try to take a look at www.gmane.org -- GRASSlist is mirrored there as
gmane.comp.gis.grass.user (so I read and write to it exclusively
thorough my newsreader).

Matej

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Luca wrote:

Hallo everybody,

I'm Luca, an italian agronomist, (it's my first message, today I'
ve registered myself also to italian GRASS list).

I've two questions:

(1) I know there are some newsgroups about GRASS, but I don't know why
they often don't work (in a lot of news servers), or are not utilized.
anyone know anything about it?
They are:

info.grass.user
info.grass
info.grass.programmer
(the only news server I'have seen they are really provided is:
news.ttnet.net.tr; here everyone can write his messages too (not only
read), but noone write on this newsgroups...could we begin?).
Besides the newsgroup I've found on Baylor's GRASS site:
gis.grass.grasslist doesn't work (I don't know why) and also does't work
its server "news2.sinica.edu.tw:119".

I would like to utilize this resources too (it may more simple to get
informations about GRASS).

(2) Second problem (my real problem): I'm a beginner.....
Yesterday I've downloaded GRASS 5.0.2 second time (first was tar.gz,
second has been .rpm (grass-5.0.2-2.i386.rpm)).

Why? Mandrake 9.1 has a grass package (5.0.0) in the contribs.

Where did you get this grass rpm?

I hoped raise to install GRASS, but Linux (Mandrake 9.1)
konsole said to me it required some libraries:
-gdal< =1.1.8
-libcrypto.so.2
-libfftw.so.2,
-libgdal.1.1.so,
-libgd.so.1.8,
-libpng.so.2,
-libssl.so.2.

Not sure of the vresions but all the required libs are avialable in
Mandrake 9.1, some of them (libgdal) in contrib.

I've tried to install more easily making click over the .rpm file, but
he sai to me some things:

(a) The signature of the packet was wrong (the signature was made on
monday 23.06.2003 with DSA key) - impossible to control the signature:
public key not found;

This is normal for a package not in the main distribution.

(b)I tried to carry on with installation, but it follows a
notice telling that there was a conflict .... after they were listed the
libraries I listed before and besides an other: libpq.so.2 .

Yes, this is the kind of problem you have when using rpms from a
different distribution.

I don't know what to do... i woul like to learn to utilize GRASS, but I
finded very difficult to install it and I've found a lot to study it (in
italian too), but nothing about installation.
If could be useful, I tell you my PC is a PENTIUM 4, 1.7 GHZ, RAM=640 Mb.
Perhaps difficulties depend I'm a Linux beginner too... I hope anyone
can tell me anything about it.. after it looks to me not so difficult to
learn how to use GRASS.

Easiest way to install grass:
1)Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon and add a "contrib" source from a
mirror near you (you can also do this by installing and running urpmi
.setup as follows:
# urpmi urpmi.setup
# urpmi.setup
)
2)As root, run:
# urpmi grass
(of course, you can install it from the software manager too).
3)Wait for the menus to update, then start grass from
Applications->Sciences->GeoSciences->Grass, or start it from a shell with:
$ grass5

An updated grass rpm (5.0.2) for Mandrake 9.1 is available from my site
(http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/9.1), but you should not need it
just to get started with grass.

Regards,
Buchan

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On Tuesday 01 July 2003 06:00 pm, Luca wrote:

Hallo everybody,

I'm Luca, an italian agronomist, (it's my first message, today I' ve
registered myself also to italian GRASS list).

I've two questions:

(1) I know there are some newsgroups about GRASS, but I don't know why they
often don't work (in a lot of news servers), or are not utilized. anyone
know anything about it? They are:

info.grass.user
info.grass
info.grass.programmer
(the only news server I'have seen they are really provided is:
news.ttnet.net.tr; here everyone can write his messages too (not only
read), but noone write on this newsgroups...could we begin?). Besides the
newsgroup I've found on Baylor's GRASS site:
gis.grass.grasslist doesn't work (I don't know why) and also does't work
its server "news2.sinica.edu.tw:119".

I would like to utilize this resources too (it may more simple to get
informations about GRASS).

(2) Second problem (my real problem): I'm a beginner.....
Yesterday I've downloaded GRASS 5.0.2 second time (first was tar.gz,
second has been .rpm (grass-5.0.2-2.i386.rpm)). I hoped raise to install
GRASS, but Linux (Mandrake 9.1)
konsole said to me it required some libraries:
-gdal< =1.1.8
-libcrypto.so.2
-libfftw.so.2,
-libgdal.1.1.so,
-libgd.so.1.8,
-libpng.so.2,
-libssl.so.2.

I've tried to install more easily making click over the .rpm file, but he
sai to me some things:

(a) The signature of the packet was wrong (the signature was made on monday
23.06.2003 with DSA key) - impossible to control the signature: public key
not found; (b)I tried to carry on with installation, but it follows a
notice telling that there was a conflict .... after they were listed the
libraries I listed before and besides an other: libpq.so.2 . I don't
know what to do... i woul like to learn to utilize GRASS, but I finded very
difficult to install it and I've found a lot to study it (in italian too),
but nothing about installation. If could be useful, I tell you my PC is a
PENTIUM 4, 1.7 GHZ, RAM=640 Mb. Perhaps difficulties depend I'm a Linux
beginner too... I hope anyone can tell me anything about it.. after it
looks to me not so difficult to learn how to use GRASS. Greetings to all
you of GISGRASS list.

Luca, from Italy

Hi Luca, list:

at the risk of overstating the obvious, and as a new linux/grass user myself, th emost important thing I learned while installing GRASS (from sources, but applies to all installs) is to make sure you have all the requirements.

which are listed at:

http://grass.itc.it/grass5/source/REQUIREMENTS.html

trust me, get the requirements or check if you already have them (for rpms: rpm -q nameofpackage
from shell will tell you if you have the packages). Dont forget that the required programs for grass may themselves need other programs (dependencies).

good luck

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Tanks for having answeref to me.

You said:
Why? Mandrake 9.1 has a grass package (5.0.0) in the contribs.

I haven't found it in mandrake 9.1 (perhaps because I can't realize to well
use the rpm installer (I can't realize how to tell him to seek in a certain
CD, or in an other), but I have looked in all rpms stored in the 3 cds
directory rpm and I'haven't found any GRASS rpm) .
I have too an other CD for Mandrake containg Grass 5.0.2 but it's tar.gz
and I can't raise to install the decomprimed .tar .

Where did you get this grass rpm?

I have downloaded it from this link
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/freegis/intevation/freegis/gnu-linux-i586/freegi
s-1.2.4/i386/

Easiest way to install grass:
1)Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon and add a "contrib" source from a
mirror near you

I'll try this evening (I can't connect during the day from my house (I've
yet an old 54 k connection, utilizing the same line of home telephone) ).
I hope I'll raise to install it. In an eventual negative case I'll post
again tomorrow.

Thanks again

Luca Fianchini