[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7.0beta3 planning

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Martin Z

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Martin Zbinden <martin.zbinden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> +1 to beta3. Maybe the announcement of it is a chance to update the
> instructions on http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/linux/ :
>
> Linux Mint: "ppa:grassgis/grassgis-testing" doesn't exist.

So, simply remove Linux Mint there?

> But probably ppa from Ubuntu should work, too. (see remarks below)
> Ubuntu: "ppa:grass/grass-stable" is ok.
>
> Generally Ubuntu GRASS 7 is not working well together with parallel
> grass_6.4.3-3 installation. Errors:
> 1) on installation: E:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/grass-doc_6.4.3-4~trusty1_all.deb: Versuch,
> "/usr/share/man/man1/r3.out.vtk.1grass.gz" zu überschreiben, welches
> auch in Paket grass70-doc 7.0-3-30661~ubuntu14.04.1 ist.

This is an issue for the Ubuntu packager.

> 2) when starting GRASS 70:
> Unable to get GRASS version
> bash: /usr/lib/grass70/etc/prompt.py: No such file or directory

... solved: it should disappear in beta3.

Markus