[GRASSLIST:4004] Re: Grass 5.0pre5 Installation Problem

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:35:01PM +0200, Philip S. Wood wrote:
> I have recently tried to install Grass 5.0 from source
> on a Linux/GNU system (Mandrake 8.0).
> 
> The system gets configured, built and installed without any problems.

You sure about that?  Check <grass_src>/error.log ...

> The resulting system, however, does not work.
> 
> When I invoke grass5 it complains about not finding a lock file:
>  /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock.
> If I create a lock file (touch lock),
> it warns me that it can't find grass_intro and then
> complains about not finding 
>  /usr/local/grass5/etc/set_data
> 
> Surely there must be some setup utility that I need to run?
> Am I missing something obvious?

Other than ./configure, make and make install, no.

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Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>