[GRASSLIST:5787] Re: v.convert missing???

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:37:42PM -0600, Stan Hughes wrote:
> NEWBIE ALERT!!!!!
> 
> I recently compiled and installed grass5.0.1 on a redhat8 machine.
> I downloaded a tutorial for grass5.1 (g51test-10.tar.gz).
> 
> The tutorial will not run. One of the first lines of the "tour" script
> is a v.convert command.

Yes: You mixed 5.0.1 and 5.1.0.

Stable:       5.0.1 (which you have installed)
Experimental: 5.1.0 (the tutorial is written for this version).
 
> My installation does not have this command. I have rebuilt three times
> now and it never shows up. Is is supposed to be there?

No, not in 5.0.1.

> If so, is there some way I can compile just this executable, so I can
> attempt to find the errors (preventing it from making)?

No, and you don't need it. In fact you are looking into the wrong
tutorial. Get a 5.0.x related tutorial from here:
 http://grass.itc.it/gdp/index.html#tutorials

Cheers

 Markus