[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS packaged without GUI

[Rashad M]

Hi vaclav,

here is the control file[1]. I think this should be fixed in packaging.
grass virtual package includes grass-gui package. Failure in building
grass-gui probably "xml or version key error" may result in the above
behavious. In that case a patch can be applied when building deb file so
that if wxpython dir is not found it can show a better error message. One
thing can be fixed is checking the error message from parsing like i said
above keyErorr['version']. There is a better complete error message a while
ago in grass-dev list.


[1]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~grass/grass/grass64_release_debian/view/head:/control


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>


-- 
Regards,
   Rashad
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