<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I'm not really experienced in that but since there is no other answer, I'll try to answer anyway<br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Zenaan Harkness <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zen@freedbms.net" target="_blank">zen@freedbms.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm on Debian Jessie (stable), have not used GIS software before and<br>
want to learn GRASS so it makes sense to me to start with GRASS7<br>
rather than 6.4 (which is available in Debian).<br>
<br>
I tried without success the instructions to install GRASS7 from<br>
experimental here:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.or</a><p>IMO the most important advantage of LaTeX over Word is missing here.
You might have forgotten it in your academic career but it's what
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layout right upfront. Word forces you to fix the layout in your last
step.</p>
<p><br></p><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">g/DebianExperimental</a><br>
<br>
I added this to sources.list:<br>
deb <a href="http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/</a> experimental main contrib<br>
<br>
Then:<br>
apt-get update<br>
apt-get -t experimental install grass-core grass-gui<br>
<br>
First it failed,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Failed with what message?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">so I installed grass from stable and now I can run this:<br>
$ grass --version<br>
GRASS GIS 6.4.4<br>
cat: /usr/lib/grass64/etc/license: No such file or directory<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I suggest uninstalling all grass packages and starting over.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
So firstly, can someone tell me what that last line of output is (it<br>
looks very odd to coming out of a Debian package)?<br>
<br>
Now when I try:<br>
apt-get -t experimental install grass-core grass-gui<br>
I get the following output:<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree<br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
grass-core is already the newest version.<br>
grass-gui is already the newest version.<br>
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.<br>
<br>
Can anyone help here - I'd really like to start on GRASS7, if possible<br>
(on Debian stable - would that normally be a "backport" or an<br>
"update"?).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From 6 to 7 is update. I don't think that that current Debian version will switch from 6 to 7 if this is what you are asking.<br><br></div><div>If installation from packages does not work, you can always compile it. It should be relatively simple:<br><br><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#GRASS_7_on_Debian_Jessie">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#GRASS_7_on_Debian_Jessie</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Thanks heaps,<br>
Zenaan<br>
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