[GRASS-user] howto Install grass 6.2 on Fedora 6

[Travis Kirstine]

Thanks all for your insight,
I used yum to install the packages and all seems to work fine.

Travis

On 09/11/06, Brad Douglas <rez at touchofmadness.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:59 -0500, Travis Kirstine wrote:
> > I've just converted from windows xp to fedora 6.2 and have in the past
> > been using the grass/cygwin combo from geni.ath.cx or the new mingw
> > version.  I would like to now install grass 6.2 on my machine running
> > fedora 6.  I tried just downloading and running the various .rpm files
> > from the grass download page but receive missing required file error
> > (dependencies) message when attempting to install.  Can anyone point
> > me to where I could find a listing of all files required for grass to
> > run and a fairly detailed explanation on steps needed to install since
> > I have very little experience with fedora/linux
>
> I haven't finished the accompanying documentation, yet.
>
> You definitely need proj,tcl,tk,fftw,freetype,sqlite,python installed.
> Can you paste the error and which gdal you are using?  GRASS has many
> dependencies.
>
> You can usually guess the missing pieces from the library/dependency
> name or you can let yum resolve the dependencies for you:
>
> yum localinstall package_list
>
> package_list being the GRASS and associated RPMs you downloaded.
>
>
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