[GRASS-dev] installing GRASS 7 on Ubuntu issue

[Rashad M]

Hello Michael,

Could you post the log saying that here when installing grass-dev?.

FYI, there is a grass-addons package[1]. But only for grass6

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~rashadkm/+recipe/grass-addons-req


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>wrote:

>  Thanks much for the explanation. Does anyone know if we need grass-dev
> for running g.extension? For some reason, when we started to install it, we
> got a message that it would wipe out several important software packages we
> are using.
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>  On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Rashad M <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  yes. this was a bug in packaging which I couldnt get time to fix. But
> installing grass-gui package will help to solve the problem.
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>  sudo apt-get install grass-gui
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>  sudo apt-get install grass should install everything as this is a
> virtual package but it not doing it right way. I may find some time this
> week to fix these and merge some very important patches from debianGIS.
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>  To sum up for now
> you need to install grass like
> apt-get install grass-core grass-gui
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>  Let me know if this works so that i can confirm this issue.
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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>wrote:
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>> Turns out that the GUI is a separate download and installation. That
>> seems odd to me, but we managed to solve this.
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>> Michael Barton
>> School of Human Evolution &Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>  Arizona State University
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>> ...Sent from my iPad
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>> > On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:56 AM, "Maris Nartiss" <maris.gis at gmail.com>
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>> > Hello,
>> > as I don't run Ubuntu, could you, please, explain what exactly is
>> > happening. "Skips GUI" sounds too board to understand "when" and "how"
>> > skips. If it's related to compilation, check presence of *-dev
>> > packages. If it's a problem with starting up, run from terminal to get
>> > meaningful error message.
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>> > Maris.
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>> > 2013/11/18 Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>:
>> >> Hi Hamish,
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>> >> The instructions you sent, and added to the WIKI, worked great for
>> >> installing GRASS 7 on 2 Ubuntu boxes. But on the 3rd, it won't install
>> the
>> >> GUI. We've made sure that wxpython (2.8.12.1) and wxwidgets are
>> installed,
>> >> but when GRASS installs, it simply skips the GUI. I assume that it
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>> >> because it cannot find wxpython/wxwidgets.
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>> >> Any idea of how to get around that?
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>> >> Thanks
>> >> Michael
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>> >> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> >> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> >> Arizona State University
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>    Rashad
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   Rashad
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