[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS packaged without GUI

[Rashad M]

Hi Vaclav,

I had made some changes in control script to fix this behaviour some time
ago. Could tell which version of Ubuntu you are using and thee ppa. FYI, I
had updated only grass-ppa[1] not in the ubuntugis

[1] https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when installing incomplete GRASS GIS 6.4.3 from packages on Ubuntu I get
> the following error when I start using `grass` command:
>
> Starting GRASS ...
> python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py': [Errno
> 2] No such file or directory
> Received EXIT message from GUI.
> GRASS is not started. Bye.
>
> It is caused by the fact that I have installed grass-core and not
> grass-gui, so I have modules and `grass` command but I don't have any GUI.
>
> Although, packaging is what caused the problem, it seems that it is our
> problem since we claim that GRASS is usable without GUI or don't we?
>
> Once user reads `grass -h` he or she can realize that `grass -text` could
> start and it of course starts. The problem is that when grass-gui package
> is not available, text interface should start (should be the default or
> fallback), but once grass-gui is installed GUI should be the default option.
>
> Besides the start, modules do not have their GUIs:
>
> g.region --ui
> python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gui_core/forms.py':
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
>  This is not so critical error, just a better error message would be
> nice. Maybe, the better error message would be enough also at start up.
> Something, like "Have you installed GRASS GIS with GUI?"
>
> I haven't checked the source code but I guess that it is the same for all
> versions including trunk.
>
> Vaclav
>
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Regards,
   Rashad
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