[GRASS-user] need help with mac os x installation

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On Thu, September 6, 2007 16:15, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> Qgis Readme.  There is a trick for this - you need an alias to the
>> inside of the GRASS app bundle so Qgis can navigate there.  A symlink
>> could also work.
>
> Sorry for having skipped over the README. BTW, maybe it would be worth
> posting this seperately on your website since I did not copy it when
> installing QGIS and so had to redownload the whole QGIS package  
> just to
> access the README.
>
I dunno, I'd have to remember to synchronize the two, and in  
different formats.  But I have been thinking about a FAQ section.   
And I need to work on getting stuff into the various wikis.

> But for me the readme also was not correct. It says:
>
> "To choose GRASS.app as the GISBASE, navigate into that alias you  
> created
> on your desktop.  Dig further in from there and select Resources as  
> the
> GISBASE."
>
> I had to select the MacOSX folder, and not the Resources folder for  
> it to
> work.
>
Right.  Another part of the internal GRASS change that's out of sync  
with Qgis 0.8 ;)

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