[GRASS-user] need help with mac os x installation

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On Mon, September 3, 2007 17:46, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> First thing to check: make sure X11 is installed, it's optional on
>> OSX.  It's on the Tiger or system install disc - run the Optional
>> Installs installer, or find it in /System/Installation/Packages.
>
> That was it. Thanks to Stu and yourself for that tip. Maybe you  
> could put
> this info (+ the fact that tcl/tk is included in the package) in  
> the notes
> on your download page ?
>
I thought I had the X11 requirement there, at one time at least.  I  
just added it.  Make sure to use the OSX Software Update - there has  
been an X11 update since the original 10.4 release, and depending on  
the OSX version the X11 installer may not have this.

> Now it works like a charm except for a crash of the GUI trying to run
> v.surf.rst, but I still need to look into this in more detail.
>
The OSX Console.app is where to look - find a crashlog in ~/Library/ 
Logs/Crashreporter.

(I hope I'm not presuming to little OSX knowledge, I know you're a  
Windows user, probably also linux, but I haven't seen you working on  
OSX stuff before ;)

>>
>> When you say GRASS/Qgis, note that my builds of Qgis, 0.8 and 0.9,
>> use GRASS 6.3.
>
> Yes, I saw that. Will have to install 6.3 then. I was a bit afraid of
> putting the professor in front of the "unstable" version. It's been  
> very
> stable for me in Debian, but I wasn't sure for Mac.
>
I don't push it to its limits, but I haven't had problems.  I don't  
use 6.2 at all really.  Haven't heard of major problems from other  
Mac users that were OSX-specific.

> Thanks again to both of you for the prompt reply.
>
> Moritz
>

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