[GRASS-user] GRASS 6.3 Installation Woes on OS X

William Kyngesburye woklist at kyngchaos.com
Tue Jul 10 09:57:28 EDT 2007


You may have installed Lorenzo's or OpenOSX's GRASS before.  I think  
one of those installed the Spearfish samples and the user/grass  
folder.  Basically, those extras are just for convenience from the  
packager.

See the GRASS documentation for help setting up GRASS after  
installation.  This build of GRASS now has docs integrated with the  
OSX help system - open Mac Help from the Finder, then select GRASS  
from the Library menu.  A readme is installed in /Users/Shared.

.grass6rc is not something that must exist for GRASS to run.  Create  
it if you need it.  I prefer to use .bash_profile instead,  
since .grass6rc is loaded *after* the initial mapset selection.

As for the 'grass63' executable, this is embedded in the application  
bundle, and there is no need to directly run it, this is taken care  
of when you double-click GRASS-6.3.app.  It is possible to run it  
from a Terminal if you like - it is renamed 'grass.sh' inside the app  
bundle, in GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/Resources.

On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Ryan Rosario wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using the binary GRASS.app 6.3 CVS 070530 from the  
> KyngChaos.com website. I am having some difficult getting GRASS 6.3  
> to install correctly.
>
> I believe in my previous version of GRASS on another system, the  
> installer created the directory "/Users/ryan/grass" for me and put  
> the Spearfish dataset in there. This directory does not exist after  
> installing this new version for some reason. When I start GRASS, I  
> get an error:
>
> WARNING: location <<UNKNOWN>> at GISDBASE </Users/ryan> is not a  
> directory or does not exist.
>
> because /Users/ryan/grass does not exist. There is also no  
> Spearfish dataset anywhere. If I manually create the grass folder,  
> I still get the error b/c Grass doesn't detect it.
>
> For some reason, the  .grass6rc file and the executable grass63  
> will not install.
>
> Am I missing something? I installed all of the frameworks before  
> installing 6.3 but I cannot get it to install completely.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Ryan Rosario
> Center for Environmental Statistics
> Department of Statistics
> University of California, Los Angeles
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