Dear all,
Probably I have missed it but is there any rss news feed available ?
Thank you.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:32:26AM +0200, Ing.Peter Misovic wrote:
Dear all,
Probably I have missed it but is there any rss news feed available ?
No, there isn't (yet?).
Offlist suggestions how to implement that without too much
efforts are welcome.
Markus
Hi grasslist,
I have been using grass under xp. Now I have a
machine the runs on ubuntu 5.4 hoary. I was able to
install Grass 5.3 from the ubuntu repositories.
But, how can I install grass 6.0.1 under ubuntu 5.4?
I'm trying the synpatic package manager and i can't
seem to make the deb repository syntax correct?
Please help.
Cheers,
Maning
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2005/10/26, Maning Sambale <esambale@yahoo.com>:
But, how can I install grass 6.0.1 under ubuntu 5.4?
I'm trying the synpatic package manager and i can't
seem to make the deb repository syntax correct?
Please help.
Under debian, your /etc/apt/sources.list should look like
deb http://your.preferred.repo [stable|testing|unstable] main contrib non-free
it should be "almost" the same, except for the version's name.
Are you using the universe repo? Try that.
--
Paulo Marcondes
http://rj.debianbrasil.org
Grass works well under Ubuntu, but I've found installing grass is a
bit tedious because the shared libraries have slightly different names
than are found on the typical RPM-based distros on which the binaries
are developed. The trick is to set up sim links between what GRASS
wants to see and the libraries you actually have installed. The SECOND
time you do this, it takes about 5 minutes...
1) Download the tarball from the grass site. If you want the latest
and greatest go here:
http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/
2) Then follow the special directions for Debian-based distros on the README:
http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/README.html
There is a list of required/recommended libraries in the readme. Go
down the list and type:
sudo apt-get install <name of library>
Use the Debian names for the libraries (they are shown in parenthesis)
3) Then cd into /usr/lib and start creating sim-links as described in
the README. Usually, the only difference is that Debian/Ubuntu have
extra digits for the version number, but grass will need the exact
name in order to run (hence the sim links).
Fire up grass and watch for errors that indicate it couldn't find a
library. You probably missed one above (or the maintainers of the
readme did) and you will need to go through steps 2 and 3 again for
that library.
The next time you upgrade grass, the process goes much faster because
the libraries and simlinks are mostly already in place.
If you wouldn't mind writing down the exact steps you took to get it
installed, we could post that to the Wiki for future Ubuntu users.
I've had grass installed for so long that I don't know what is
required of a fresh Ubuntu user to get it working. I am putting
together a script to compile Grass on Ubuntu from CVS source. But
there again, I don't know which libraries were originally missing.
One cool thing about going through all this is that you are no longer
dependent on Ubuntu to update their copy of GRASS when a new feature
you need is released. Also, it is not much more difficult to compile
grass from source (basically more of the same with the development
libraries) which opens up the possibility of making small
modifications to programs you use frequently (like changing the
default color for symbols or something like that).
If you have any troubles, email the list and I will help you out if I
can. I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu and would like to see GRASS work
well with it.
David
On 10/26/05, pmarc <paulomarcondes@gmail.com> wrote:
2005/10/26, Maning Sambale <esambale@yahoo.com>:
> But, how can I install grass 6.0.1 under ubuntu 5.4?
> I'm trying the synpatic package manager and i can't
> seem to make the deb repository syntax correct?
> Please help.Under debian, your /etc/apt/sources.list should look like
deb http://your.preferred.repo [stable|testing|unstable] main contrib non-free
it should be "almost" the same, except for the version's name.
Are you using the universe repo? Try that.
--
Paulo Marcondes
http://rj.debianbrasil.org
--
David Finlayson
Marine Geology & Geophysics
School of Oceanography
Box 357940
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7940
USA
Office: Marine Sciences Building, Room 112
Phone: (206) 616-9407
Web: http://students.washington.edu/dfinlays
[...]
2) Then follow the special directions for Debian-based distros on the README:
http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/README.html
There is a list of required/recommended libraries in the readme. Go
down the list and type:
sudo apt-get install <name of library>
Use the Debian names for the libraries (they are shown in parenthesis)
3) Then cd into /usr/lib and start creating sim-links as described in
the README. Usually, the only difference is that Debian/Ubuntu have
[...]
the postinst script in the debian package doesn't take care of this??
--
Paulo Marcondes
http://rj.debianbrasil.org
Breezy has 6.0.1 in Universe.
Which isn't as out-of-date as the Hoary's version. I don't have Hoary
installed anymore to see if a new version is available there. If you
can't update to Breezy, try the manual install method I described
previously.
David
On 10/26/05, Maning Sambale <esambale@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi grasslist,
I have been using grass under xp. Now I have a
machine the runs on ubuntu 5.4 hoary. I was able to
install Grass 5.3 from the ubuntu repositories.But, how can I install grass 6.0.1 under ubuntu 5.4?
I'm trying the synpatic package manager and i can't
seem to make the deb repository syntax correct?
Please help.Cheers,
Maning
__________________________________
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http://farechase.yahoo.com
--
David Finlayson
Marine Geology & Geophysics
School of Oceanography
Box 357940
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7940
USA
Office: Marine Sciences Building, Room 112
Phone: (206) 616-9407
Web: http://students.washington.edu/dfinlays
The official distro .deb does update those links, however my thoughts
refereed to the weekly CVS tarball that is available from:
http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/
I have used both Debian and more recently Ubuntu for about 4 or 5
years. The official grass debs in Debian (and now Ubuntu) have always
been out of date, sometimes by a whole version number. In general,
that leaves you with either (1) installing a custom deb from the
project web site or a benevolent user or (2) installing the
traditional way with tarballs (sometimes source compiling).
Over the years, I've found that the latter (tarballs) tends to be the
easiest to maintain in the long run. It doesn't add a dependency on
the middle-man between the project developers and your system. So if I
can't get the version I want out of APT I tend to jump ship and
install from the main sources if I can and put everything in
/usr/local/
David
On 10/26/05, pmarc <paulomarcondes@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> 2) Then follow the special directions for Debian-based distros on the README:
> http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/README.html
> There is a list of required/recommended libraries in the readme. Go
> down the list and type:
> sudo apt-get install <name of library>
> Use the Debian names for the libraries (they are shown in parenthesis)
> 3) Then cd into /usr/lib and start creating sim-links as described in
> the README. Usually, the only difference is that Debian/Ubuntu have
[...]the postinst script in the debian package doesn't take care of this??
--
Paulo Marcondes
http://rj.debianbrasil.org
--
David Finlayson
Marine Geology & Geophysics
School of Oceanography
Box 357940
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7940
USA
Office: Marine Sciences Building, Room 112
Phone: (206) 616-9407
Web: http://students.washington.edu/dfinlays
On 10/27/05, Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
GRASS already has a debian/ directory will all the info and scripts
needed. It is a simple single command to build a .deb package of the
latest CVS. I have no idea what that single command is of course
(dpkg-buildpackage from the main grass source dir?), but I am assured it
is very easy. You'd have to ask on the DebianGIS mailing list.
I never noticed that directory before (tunnel vision?) that would
simplify the simlinks problem and dependencies I mentioned above. I
wonder why compiling the deb package isn't listed in INSTALL
anywhere?
On Debian I just compile GRASS in /usr/src/ and then make a symlink from
/usr/src/grass/grass61/bin.$DIST/grass61 into ~/bin/ and run it that
way.
That is what I've been doing myself.
--
David Finlayson
Marine Geology & Geophysics
School of Oceanography
Box 357940
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7940
USA
Office: Marine Sciences Building, Room 112
Phone: (206) 616-9407
Web: http://students.washington.edu/dfinlays
Announcement
Thanks to the great help of Peter Misovic, the GRASS Web site
now comes with RSS feed:
http://grass.itc.it/
-> http://grass.itc.it/rss.xml (RSS Feed)
The new section is in the Web space is auto-rendered
from the rss.xml file.
Enjoy,
Markus
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