[GRASS-dev] Making sense of packages for Ubuntu

[Vaclav Petras]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently, I helped my colleague to install GRASS from packages and
> Synaptic showed grass and grass7 packages both with version 7.0.0. I used
> grass7 and it works. So what is the actual state and preferred way of
> installing GRASS GIS 7 (on 14.04 and 15.04)?


On Launchpad [1] I also see that `ubuntugis-unstable` contains 7.0.0 for
14.04 (trusty), so shouldn't GRASS download page [2] use only
`ubuntugis-unstable` and `grass` package?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grass

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable
[2] http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/linux/
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