[GRASSLIST:8520] Re: troubleshooting Cygwin and Grass 6 installation

[Ksenia Konwicki]

I found the steps on this website to be helpful when I was setting up
Cygwin/Grass 6. The website is titled "WinGrass for the Green".

http://jrshelby.com/grass/

Hope it helps.

Kessie.

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...
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> Paulo

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