[GRASS-user] GUI of grass6.2 fails to start in puppy linux

[Hamish]

Hillel wrote:
> I want to learn grass gis and recently I installed
> grass-6.2 in puppy linux almost succesfully.  I have
> also downloaded the spearfish dataset.  However after
> selecting user1 from the spearfish dataset the GUI
> didn't  start, it just flashes for a while (displaying
> an old map-welcome screen i guess for 1 second) and
> it's gone.  The following error is displayed in the
> terminal:
> 
> Mapset <user1> in Location <spearfish60>
> GRASS-GRID > Error in startup script: can't read
> "parts(n)": no such variable
>     while executing
> "MapCanvas::zoom_new $mon $parts(n) $parts(s)
> $parts(e)  $parts(w) $parts(nsres) $parts(ewres)"


run "g.region -p" at the GRASS command prompt to see what the real error
is.

Probably missing the GDAL library.


Hamish