[GRASS-user] I need help

[Paul Kelly]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Paul Kelly wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:
>
>>>> I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
>>>> grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.
>
> Can you give the exact command-line you typed, and the exact error mesage 
> (copied and pasted). This would make it a lot easier to debug.
>
> [...]
>> You have to unpack the tar.gz by
>> 
>> tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz
>
> No that's not correct. grass6install.sh is the binary installer script

Replying to myself, sorry I missed the very weird looking filename there 
(tar.gz in the middle and at the end doesn't look right). I think Philipp 
is right and it is actually a source distribution tarball but has been 
renamed with bin in the name just to confuse things In which case his 
instructions about ./configure, make etc. apply. I'm really just 
guessing though.

Paul