[GRASSLIST:8764] Re: install grass 6.0.1 under ubuntu 5.4

[David Finlayson]

The official distro .deb does update those links, however my thoughts
refereed to the weekly CVS tarball that is available from:

http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/

I have used both Debian and more recently Ubuntu for about 4 or 5
years. The official grass debs in Debian (and now Ubuntu) have always
been out of date, sometimes by a whole version number. In general,
that leaves you with either (1) installing a custom deb from the
project web site or a benevolent user or (2) installing the
traditional way with tarballs (sometimes source compiling).

Over the years, I've found that the latter (tarballs) tends to be the
easiest to maintain in the long run. It doesn't add a dependency on
the middle-man between the project developers and your system. So if I
can't get the version I want out of APT I tend to jump ship and
install from the main sources if I can and put everything in
/usr/local/

David

On 10/26/05, pmarc <paulomarcondes at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > 2) Then follow the special directions for Debian-based distros on the README:
> > http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/README.html
> > There is a list of required/recommended libraries in the readme. Go
> > down the list and type:
> > sudo apt-get install <name of library>
> > Use the Debian names for the libraries (they are shown in parenthesis)
> > 3) Then cd into /usr/lib and start creating sim-links as described in
> > the README. Usually, the only difference is that Debian/Ubuntu have
> [...]
>
> the postinst script in the debian package doesn't take care of this??
>
> --
> Paulo Marcondes
> http://rj.debianbrasil.org
>
>


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