Hi everyone!
I am looking for some guidance on using GRASS GIS 8.5 on Ubuntu 24.04.
Recently, I am contributing to GRASS and need to test code against GRASS 8.5.
I want to use :tools.g_region(flags="g", format="json"), which is not supported by GRASS older version. However, I’ve had trouble setting up a clean local GRASS 8.5 environment on my system.
Any advice or recommended approaches would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Here you may find some guidance: https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu
On 29 Jan 2026, at 06:45, Ayush Kumar via OSGeo Discourse noreply@discourse.osgeo.org wrote:
ayush.kumar
January 29Hi everyone!
I am looking for some guidance on using GRASS GIS 8.5 on Ubuntu 24.04.Recently, I am contributing to GRASS and need to test code against GRASS 8.5.
I want to use :
tools.g_region(flags="g", format="json"), which is not supported by GRASS older version. However, I’ve had trouble setting up a clean local GRASS 8.5 environment on my system.Any advice or recommended approaches would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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You will need to update your wx and libfftw libraries to the Ubuntu 24.04 equvilents .
If you plan on working with LiDAR, you will need to install pdal libpdal-dev and I think libpdal-plugins These libraries are only available if you install the ubuntugis unstable ppa
This is what I put together tonight to install on mint 22.3 ( Ubuntu version, which uses Ubuntu 24.04 repositories ) Bear in mind I have GRASS installed from the ubuntugis-unstable repository , which may have put in the relevent WX python Library.
sudo apt-get install
build-essential
flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ ccache
python3 python3-dev python3-pip
python3-opengl python3-wxgtk4.0
python3-dateutil libgsl-dev python3-numpy
wx3.2-headers wx-common libwxgtk3.2-dev
libwxbase3.2-1t64
libncurses5-dev
libbz2-dev
zlib1g-dev gettext
libtiff5-dev libpnglite-dev
libcairo2 libcairo2-dev
sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
libpq-dev libreadline-dev
libfreetype6-dev libfftw3-bin
libfftw3-dev libboost-thread-dev
libboost-program-options-dev git
libzstd-dev checkinstall
libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev
ghostscript wget pdal libpdal-dev libpdal-plugins -y
sudo apt-get install
ffmpeg libavutil-dev
libffmpegthumbnailer-dev
libavcodec-dev
libxmu-dev
libavformat-dev libswscale-dev -y
MYCFLAGS=‘-O2 -fPIC -fno-common -fexceptions -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -m64’
#MYCXXFLAGS=‘’
MYLDFLAGS=‘-Wl,–no-undefined -Wl,-z,now’
LDFLAGS=“$MYLDFLAGS” CFLAGS=“$MYCFLAGS” CXXFLAGS=“$MYCXXFLAGS” ./configure
–with-cxx
–enable-largefile
–with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj
–with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config
–with-python
–with-geos
–with-sqlite
–with-nls
–with-zstd
–with-pdal
–with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig
–with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes=“/usr/include/freetype2/”
–with-wxwidgets
–with-fftw
–with-openmp
–with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL
–with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes=“/usr/include/postgresql”
–without-netcdf
–without-mysql
–without-odbc
–with-ffmpeg \
This complied and got me into the gui.
