AW: [winGRASS] Installing with WinGRASS cd

[marco.lechner]

Hi John and WinGRASSers,

 

what John found out is correct, well it's not possible to install grass6.0
and grass6.1 parallel from the CD, because of a conflict in the
gdal-grass-Versions. IMHO it's not useful to install grass6.0, because a lot
of changes were done in the first 2 weeks after grass6.0 was out. Those
changes were especially cygwin-relevant (using the Internet Explorer for the
Helpsystem, .). This is the CVS-Version when the install-CD was created.
Therefore use the grass6.1.cvs from the CD (if you want to install
CygwinGRASS this way) and be happy with it ;-) That's also the reason why
grass.6.1.cvs is chosen as default installation during the
CD-Installations-routine.

 

By the way - thanks John for giving really detailed
Installation-informations - I just didn't have the time (that's why the
how-to-install-pdf is still from an old version)

 

Marco

 

Marco Lechner

Department of Physical Geography

Werderring 4

79085 Freiburg

Germany

 

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Von: wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it [mailto:wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it] Im
Auftrag von John Robertson
Gesendet: Freitag, 22. April 2005 00:28
An: wingrass at grass.itc.it
Betreff: [winGRASS] Installing with WinGRASS cd

 

I have added my how-I-was-able-to-do-it for installing GRASS 6.1 (but *not*
6.0)
http://jrshelby.com/grass/install-cd.htm
using the WinGRASS cd, to my "WinGRASS for the GREEN"
site at
http://jrshelby.com/grass/index.htm

I found that, if when selecting packages to be included in the cd, if I
*de-selected* GRASS 6.1 and *selected* GRASS 6.0, the program would not run,
but would give an error message about a missing *6.1* .dll (I was trying to
install 6.0, not 6.1).  I tried this twice; same results each time.

So, I did a full un-install, then re-installed using the same cd, but this
time went with the default GRASS 6.1 cvs, it installed without a problem.

It may be possible to install *both* 6.0 and 6.1 since 6.1 is a "concurrent
version", but that is a level of complexity I am not yet ready for, so I did
not attempt it.

It *is* possible to install GRASS 6.0 using the methods described in "How to
install Cygwin and GRASS GIS using Huidae Cho site"
http://jrshelby.com/grass/install.htm
but for now, I am running 6.1cvs, and at the elementary level I am using it,
it will make little difference.

FWIW, there are now 3 versions of the cross-referenced (Bash/GUI) GRASS help
file at
http://jrshelby.com/grass/tutorial60/commands.htm
These are:
1.  Bash order
2.  Display Mgr. menu order
3.  Alphabetical order, by function

As voluminous as these files are, there are almost certainly some errors.
I'd appreciate them being pointed out to me so I can fix them.

I have no idea what the usefulness of such listings are, but creating them
served some usefulness to me in finding a way to "wrap my arms around" the
command structure of GRASS, which is somewhat unique to me after 25 years of
working with software.  I find working with GRASS akin to driving a
"driver's ed" car with dual controls in the front seat: manual shift on the
left side and automatic transmission on the right side.  Not bad, not wrong,
but decidedly different.

It would be possible to strip some code out and rename any of the 3 above as
full_index.html and place it in the appropriate cygwin subdir, and it would
come up whenever "Help" is clicked in the main GRASS window, but I have not
done so.  If anyone is interested, I will make such available.

In making the above sorted listings of the help file, I linked them all back
to the Baylor website.  Since GRASS insists on using "http://..." on all
screens except the main starting screen, it occurs to me that a workaround
might well be to link ALL help screens back to the Baylor site rather than
accessing the help files in the ../docs/html/ subdirectory.

John Robertson






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