[GRASSLIST:2417] Re: more startup woes

[Glynn Clements]

Aurelien wrote:

> First of all, thanks buddies for your answers. Seems like it's hard to 
> get started with GRASS !

GRASS is basically Unix software. MacOS X is a fairly recent addition
to the Unix family, and isn't yet well understood by most Unix
developers.

> BTW, I had to manually add /usr/local/bin to my PATH. Is this normal?

It's fairly common to have to do this. Ultimately, there isn't much
point in having /usr/local/bin if it isn't in $PATH.

> Now, if I cd to /opt and do 'grass5 spearfish/PERMANENT', yes, I get a 
> 'GRASS 5.0beta11 >' prompt

Note: beta11 is quite out of date now.

> There, the terminal tells me I've got several options:
> 
> This version running thru the TC Shell (/bin/tcsh)
> Help is available with the command:      g.help
> See the licence terms with:              g.version -c
> Start the graphical user interface with: tcltkgrass&
> When ready to quit enter:                exit
> 
> Funny thing, if I do g.help, I'm back with the 'vt100 error'.

g.help is a curses-based program. Error messages of the form "Error
opening terminal: xxxx" are generated by the curses library when it
can't find a terminal description.

This problem seems to be common on MacOS X.

> g.version 
> -c works though (Great !), and exit works also. However, if I enter 
> 'tcltkgrass&', I get the following message:
> 
> [1] 747
>                                                                           
>         Mapset <PERMANENT> in Location 
> <spearfish>                                      GRASS 5.0beta11 > 
> /usr/local/grass5/bin/tcltkgrass: command not found: wish [3]
> 
> What is 'wish' now ?

"wish" is the Tcl/Tk shell. You need Tcl/Tk to run tcltkgrass, NVIZ,
and a couple of other components, but you can live without it
otherwise.

If you have wish installed under a different name (e.g. wish8.3),
either create a symlink, or set the GRASS_WISH environment variable to
the pathname of the wish executable.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>