installing AND running Linux GRASS

GRASS GRASS user
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Hi,

I have unsuccessfully attempted to install and run the Linux version of
GRASS on a system with RedHat 5 Linux w/ XFree86. The steps I took were:
(1) used gunzip to unzip the file grass421_bin5_tar.gz into /usr/grass; (2)
in usr/grass, tar -xvf grass42bin.tar.z; (3) changed all the default values
for GISBASE in grass4.2 and etc/monitorcap to /usr/grass; (4) mv grass4.2
/usr/local/bin and chmod 755 grass4.2. That is all I have done. The
install instructions (which say they are for Solaris rather than Linux) say
that LD_LIBRARY_PATH should include /usr/openwin/lib. However, openwin
does not exist on my system.

So I have 2 major questions:

(1) Does anybody have step-by-step instructions for installing and
configuring Linux GRASS on a Linux system, as opposed to trying to
interpret Solaris installation instructions?

(2) How do you actually RUN GRASS? One of the major gripes I have with
Linux/Unix instruction manuals is that they explain how to install,
configure, and conduct specific operations, but I have never seen a manual
that explains how you actually run a program. Often it's obvious, but in
the case of GRASS, I am unsure. Do I type grass, grass4.1, xgrass, ...?

Thanks,

-Steve

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At 11:51 PM 4/25/98 +0300, Kari Salovaara wrote:

I have been running Grass in Linux system 2-3 years aöready and I haven't got
any problems running it. Those instructions from pages

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work very well both for source code and compiled versions.
Of course You have to read this information. :wink:

Kari,

Thankyou for your response. Unfortunately, I have already spent a number
of hours looking at the web sites you have listed, and as fas as I can
tell, they don't say to do anything differently than I have already done
when installing GRASS on Linux. Obviously, I am doing something wrong, and
somebody with a good UNIX/Linux background would probably laugh at whatever
it is I'm doing wrong. But, following what I understand to be the
instructions on the web sites is not working for me.

Regards,

-Steve