[GRASSLIST:1228] Re: grass5beta9 start

[Markus Neteler]

Hello beta9 users,

we have to apologize! The problem of GRASS 5.0beta9 not installing
properly is a overseen missing change in install script. We
missed to update the section which generates the startup script
(as we added new features to this script).

What you can do:
 - don't delete the binary package
 - wait until we post the corrected grass5install.sh script
   (hope this will be done in a few hours)
 - reinstall again with new install script then

We are very sorry for this overseen bug. This indicates we
need more voluntary testers who are willing to install a new
version before we publish it. Those testers don't need to know
much about systems, they should be "average users" (as those mostly
find remaining problems).

We'll post a message if the new install script is available.
I think there will be no need to download the binary packages
again.

Kind regards

 Markus Neteler
 GRASS Development Team



On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:47:31AM +0200, jussi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We're seeing the same problems as the rest of grassbeta9 users, but
> being impatient in seeing how some modules work
>  
> a 'Quick and Dirty cut and paste' of the Init.sh from grassbeta8/etc to
> grassbeta9/etc can be done...
> 
> This seemed to let us open grassb9 ok - and the fixed modules seem to
> work nicely but since I don't know much about the new improvements in
> the new Init script perhaps this causes something nice to be left out
> ;-?
> 
> 
> 
> Justin Hickey wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm. This is really strange if grass5 -help doesn't work, then it means
> > the unix shell on your system is not interpreting command line
> > arguments. What are the specs of your system? Does your grass5 script
> > start with the following?
> > 
> Arne Pallentin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > well, Eric's suggestion did not work. The -help option (grass5 -help ??)
> > results in the same error message as grass5 allone or grass5 -text. I tried
> > and renamed !/.grass5rc and start grass (both, with and without text
> > option), but still the same error...
> > 
> > Arne
> >
> 
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