<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I'm a Gentoo user, and don't remember something specific about GRASS installation ...<br><br></div>You can either use the standard install with latest stable ebuild (6.4.2), or follow the standard compilation procedure (<a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure</a>)<br>
On my system, I installed both the official grass gentoo ebuild + 6.4.3_rc3 and 7 from svn. I put them in /opt/grass-xx<br></div><br></div>I join a small script I wrote to get an automated update. You just need to install all dependencies, uncomment the first line for the first launch + to make a new '/opt/grass7' directory ... it's basically just a collection of commands for the standard compilation procedure and is not system dependant ...<br>
<div><br><br></div><div>cheers,<br></div><div>Sylvain<br></div><div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/6 Nikos Alexandris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nik@nikosalexandris.net" target="_blank">nik@nikosalexandris.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
<br>
I recently had the luck to be able to obtain a new system. I am doing various<br>
trials (speak OSes) on it to make the switch from K-Ubuntu to something that<br>
will be more fun to work with.<br>
<br>
I've tried Scientific Linux 6 which I find nice, clean, but I dislike the old<br>
KDE (4.3). I can't live without KDE's Kontact goodies. Also, myself being a<br>
specialist in messing up normal running systems, I managed to quickly mix up<br>
some of the repositories that don't go well along ;-p. I didn't read the<br>
"signs" I guess...<br>
<br>
I am running currently on openSUSE 12.3 which offers a fantastic installation<br>
experience and appears to me to be very stable, even with latest KDE 4.10.<br>
Indeed, the experience was brought with the least of tweaking actions I needed<br>
to do so far, among various Linux distros I have tried (K-Ubuntu, Slax, Fedora<br>
once, Gentoo once, Debian some years ago). I think, anyhow, that zypper (the<br>
cli package manager) isn't that good as apt-get (yes, apt-get has some<br>
functionalities which make life easy when hunting dependencies for example --<br>
me thinks at least).<br>
<br>
The third on the row is Funtoo. I managed to install quickly the base<br>
following the official tutorial, had to fight a bit to install Xorg (since I<br>
didn't understand quite some stuff), wait hours for KDE to "emerge". Yet, it<br>
feels it's worth the time spent! It seems that portage is quite an advanced<br>
tool and offers everything and even more (?) apt-get has to offer. It'll take<br>
some time I guess till I gain a good understanding of the advantages and how<br>
to use'm properly. But it feels like once set-up, you never look back.<br>
<br>
Herewith, I kindly ask you to share your experiences on-list. In particular,<br>
are there Gentoo/Funtoo users out there who regularly build grass_trunk and<br>
the rest? GRASS-Wiki looks "empty" in this direction.<br>
<br>
Also, relates in a way, there is this<br>
<<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_workstation_setup_tips" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_workstation_setup_tips</a>> page which deserves an<br>
update since Technology advances rapidly into new areas.<br>
<br>
Best, Nikos<br>
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