Major problem trying to install 5.0beta3 for linux

[Ben Horner-Johnson]

> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> Subject: Re: Major problem trying to install 5.0beta3 for linux

> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Ben Horner-Johnson wrote: 
>> I know this is a little late, but wouldn't it have been better to do
>> 'rm -rf bin' from /usr3 or 'rm -rf /usr3/bin'.
>> 'rm -rf /bin' to me means "go to the root partition (/) and then remove the bin
>> directory" - which is what happened.
> 
>   I was in /usr3 and I did type rm -r bin/ (messed up in the message).
> Somehow, the directories are appearing in two places.
Ah.

>   Regardless of how I screwed up, untarring the tarball should not have made
> bin, dev, etc and so on appear as directories under /usr3. _That's_ what got
> me in trouble in the first place.
> 
>   After almost 30 hours, the backup is 98% complete. When it's done I'll go
> the route of restoring the /bin directory. Then I'll change out the hardware
> and clean up the messy GRASS install.
> 
>   Wonder why it did this to me when no one else reported spurious
> directories during installation.
> 
>   Sigh.
> 
>> I also thought there was an install script (grass5install.sh) available in
>> the same directory as the binary tar.gz file
> 
>   Not that I saw. In the /binary directory there was only the tarball. Once
> I untarred it grass5install.sh was in the /usr3 directory.

Hmm... I remembered seeing something about the install script and did some
checking.  It's on the German mirror site.  The binary directory has subdirs
for different platforms, each linux subdir has grass5install.sh as a separate 
file along with the tarball and COPYRIGHT, LICENCE, WHATS_NEW, and REQUIREMENTS
html files.

	http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/binary/

I didn't see grass5.0beta3 on the keck ftp site, but I didn't look too hard.

Ben Horner-Johnson
ben at earth.nwu.edu