[ELGIS] installing grass on red hat

[Volker Froehlich]

You forgot to install the EPEL repository!

Volker

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 10:12 +0200, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> this is a pretty newbie's question, I'm new on red hat, I'm more
> experienced with debian-like systems.
> I'm trying to install grass on my brand new machine, the idea was to
> install it from repository in order to retrieve all the dependencies,
> then uninstall and compile it from source.
> I've followed the guide here [1] for adding the elgis repo: 
> 
> sudo rpm -Uvh
> http://elgis.argeo.org/repos/6/elgis-release-6-6_0.noarch.rpm
> 
> and it worked smooth.
> Now I try to install grass with:
> 
> sudo yum install grass
> 
> but I get a lot of unsolved dependencies:
> 
> Error: Package: grass-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: wxGTK-gl
> Error: Package: grass-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libfftw.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libcfitsio.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libdapserver.so.7()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libnetcdf.so.6()(64bit)
> Error: Package: grass-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: wxPython
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libhdf5.so.6()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libdap.so.11()(64bit)
> Error: Package: grass-libs-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libfftw.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libspatialite.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: librx.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libogdi.so.3()(64bit)
> Error: Package: grass-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: wxGTK
> Error: Package: grass-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libspatialite.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: gdal-1.8.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libdapclient.so.3()(64bit)
> Error: Package: grass-6.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (elgis)
>            Requires: libXm.so.2()(64bit)
> 
> I've just tried for example:
> 
> sudo yum install wxGTK-gl
> 
> Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security,
> subscription-manager
> Updating certificate-based repositories.
> rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-rpms
> | 2.6 kB     00:00     
> rhel-6-server-rpms
> | 3.7 kB     00:00     
> Setting up Install Process
> No package wxGTK-gl available.
> Error: Nothing to do
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) How should I look for the content of a package in red-hat
> distribution in order to install the correct one?
> 2) am I allowed to install these packages or they depend from the
> agreements of my institution with red-hat (i.e. do i need the sys
> admin's help to do that?)
> 3) Why some dependencies don't come with the grass package?
> 
> Sorry i know that these may sound like very stupid questions but I'm
> puzzled with that.. Thank you in advance for any help!
> 
> regards,
> madi
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Margherita Di Leo
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