[GRASSLIST:8531] Re: troubleshooting Cygwin and Grass 6 installation

[Jachym Cepicky]

hi,

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:51:11PM -0400, Eva L. Hulse wrote:
> 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.

you should follow the white rabbit -- http://www.gdf-hannover.de/media.php?id=7&lg=en in this case

it is always better to create your GRASS Database directory in your home
direcotry, the spearfish60 directory should go into "grassdata"
directory in your HOME directory:

$ mkdir grassdata
$ cd grassdata
$ tar -xvzf /where/ever/you/have/spearfish_grass60data.tar.gz
$ cd ..
$ grass61



results into

C:\cygwin\home\Eva\grassdata\spearfish60

Jachym

P.S. Otto, why there are on PDFs on the Translation portal?



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

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