[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS packaged without GUI

[Vaclav Petras]

Hi,

I used only the standard Ubuntu repository, Ubuntu 13.10, no ubuntugis, no
grass-ppa.

Just to understand, what change have you done? Can the change be viewed
somewhere? Do you think that it should be fixed while packaging and not in
GRASS (e.g., because it is hard to tell if it is a real error or just
missing package)?

Vaclav

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Rashad M <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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