[GRASSLIST:8527] Re: troubleshooting Cygwin and Grass 6 installation

[Eva L. Hulse]

I may not be helpful here.  But I have some ideas:

1) Grass 6.1.cvs and 6.0 do not like to live together on the same 
machine.  I have only had problems when I have had both versions 
installed.  You might have to completely clear out your Grass 
installation, and start again with just one version of Grass.

2) the spearfish data should be in a folder within your home directory. 
  For example,

C:\cygwin\home\Eva\spearfish60

You can even uncompress the spearfish_grass60data.tar.gz file using 
WinZip, which will create the spearfish60 directory, which you can then 
drag and drop into your home directory using Windows (because the Cygwin 
command line interface can be a mystery to us Windows users).

eva.

Paulo Froes wrote:
> Dear Eva,
>  
> thanks a lot.
>  
> It seems I have installed Grass 6.1 cvs and also the 6.0 (geni/ath/cx 
> seems to be working again!).
> I even managed to start up Grass 6.1 ( and also the 6.0). But in both 
> situations I am getting the following messages:
>  
> *Warning: Invalid Database*
> Warning: Invalid database. Finding first valid directory in parent tree.
>  
> After OKing the warning message and trying the browse 
> button (both versions)  to set the directory  where I have saved already 
> the "spearfish57" (.../database/) I am getting  the following message, 
> no matter what:
>  
> *Application error*
> Error: couldn't change working directory to "./database": no such file 
> or directory.
>  
> (!?) 
>  
> Could you (or maybe some other user ) still help?
>  
> Thank you very much once again in advance for your attention and patience...
>  
> Paulo
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> */"Eva L. Hulse" <evahulse at buffalo.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     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 download site completely
>     -- you just need to connect to one of the sites that has the base
>     Cygwin
>     files. Of course, the n 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
>      >
>      >
>      > 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
>      >
> 
>     -- 
>     ---------------------------------------------
>     Eva L. Hulse
>     PhD Student
>     University at Buffalo Anthropology Department
>     evahulse at buffalo.edu
> 

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