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

[Mars Sjoden]

Just to confirm, you do have X11 installed right?

Here is a link for downloading sample data/mapsets; http:// 
grass.itc.it/download/data6.php

Mars

On 10-Jul-07, at 6:57 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> 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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