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<FONT FACE="Skia, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>On 1/19/05 8:30 AM, "Matt Sakals" <msakals@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:<BR>
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I am trying to install GRASS, and have used the GRASS complete download for OS X from <a href="http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/download.htm">http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/download.htm</a> <BR>
but I don't know if my libraries have been installed; I can't find a grasslib folder on my computer anywhere. <BR>
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Matt,<BR>
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If you have run the install program for the grass libraries in Lorenzo Moretti’s GRASS complete, they are probably OK. They are located in /usr/local/grasslib. This is a ‘hidden’ directory on a Mac. You can check it by either...<BR>
1. Using the terminal program and entering <BR>
>>cd /usr/local/grasslib<BR>
>>ls<BR>
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2. Selecting ‘Go to folder’ from the ‘Go’ menu in the finder. Enter /usr and press ‘Go’<BR>
You should be able to navigate to /usr/local/grasslib then.<BR>
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I don't know if GRASS is working right or not because I am new, but in the tutorial it crashes when trying to import .shp files. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Skia, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>You don’t say which version of GRASS you are using. But I recommend using GRASS 6.0.0beta1. It is posted on my mirror site for Lorenzo’s files. I do NOT recommend using 5.7.0 because it is problematic. GRASS 5.4 is fine also, but 6.0 does more and generally does it more better. You should have no trouble importing a *.shp file using v.in.ogr in GRASS 6.0. <BR>
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Hope this helps.<BR>
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Michael <BR>
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