[GRASSLIST:8809] Re: install grass 6.0.1 under ubuntu 5.4

[David Finlayson]

On 10/27/05, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> GRASS already has a debian/ directory will all the info and scripts
> needed. It is a simple single command to build a .deb package of the
> latest CVS. I have no idea what that single command is of course
> (dpkg-buildpackage from the main grass source dir?), but I am assured it
> is very easy. You'd have to ask on the DebianGIS mailing list.

I never noticed that directory before (tunnel vision?) that would
simplify the simlinks problem and dependencies I mentioned above. I
wonder why compiling the deb package isn't listed in  INSTALL
anywhere?

>
> On Debian I just compile GRASS in /usr/src/ and then make a symlink from
> /usr/src/grass/grass61/bin.$DIST/grass61 into ~/bin/ and run it that
> way.
>

That is what I've been doing myself.

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