[GRASSLIST:8518] Re: troubleshooting Cygwin and Grass 6 installation

[Eva L. Hulse]

I am running Grass 6.1.cvs on Cygwin/Windows XP.  I once had a similar 
problem with the cygwin install.  This was because I added only:

http://geni.ath.cx

as a download site.  I should have added it as:

http://geni.ath.cx/grass

Although once the download site is added, you won't see the "/grass" 
part on the list.  I don't know if this is the problem you are having. 
I didn't have to follow any special instructions to get things to work 
under XP.

In the past, I have also installed the Grass files manually, after 
installing Cygwin only.  The instructions for this are under the header 
"Alternative installation for 6.1 CVS" on http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html. 
   This bypasses the <http://geni.ath.cx/grass> download site completely 
-- you just need to connect to one of the sites that has the base Cygwin 
files.  Of course, then you'll be running the CVS version, and not the 
release version.  But that shouldn't be a problem.

eva.

Paulo Froes wrote:
> Dear Grass users,
>  
> Could someone help me with CYGwin and GRASS 6 installation under Windows 
> XP? I am having a hard time to install Grass and the web tutorials seem 
> to be of no help to overcome specifics... 
>  
> When trying to restart the installation process using CYGwin setup, 
> following the step "choose a download site" and after adding 
> http:/geni.ath.cx/ to the list and selecting it together with another 
> mirror site, I am getting the following error messages: 
>  
> Cygwin Setup:
>  Can't open http:/geni.ath.cx/grass/setup.bz2 for reading: Invalid argument
>  
> Cygwin Setup:
>  Unable to get setup.ini from <http:/geni.ath.cx/grass>
> 
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any help. Would appreciate as well if 
> someone has written an alternative  step by step  installation "guide" 
>  under Windows XP and could share it...
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Paulo
> 

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Eva L. Hulse
PhD Student
University at Buffalo Anthropology Department
evahulse at buffalo.edu