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

[Brandon M. Gabler]

Eventually, I'll remember to read all the readmes, even when I've  
read the readme for past versions. Maybe this will teach me a lesson!  
Thanks for the response, and that's a nice solution. Thanks again.
Brandon


On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:49 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I have setup a user supportfolder location for this, for two  
> reasons actually - one as you mention to avoid overwriting extras  
> with updates, but also because non-admin users won't be able to put  
> stuff in the GRASS.app bundle (and that's just wrong anyways in OSX).
>
> See the OSX GRASS readme for details (it currently installs in / 
> Users/Shared), but here is a summary:
>
> Global addons (available to all users on the Mac) should be put in
>
> /Library/GRASS/$GRASSVERSION/Modules
>
> $GRASSVERSION is simply the major.minor GRASS version.  There are  
> subfolders for the usual bin/lib/etc.  Of course, you also need  
> admin privileges to do this.
>
> User addons should be put in
>
> ~/Library/GRASS/$GRASSVERSION/Modules
>
> Neither of these will get stomped by an update.  The global support  
> folder is created by the installer, the user folder when GRASS starts.
>
> On my list to do is add some info to the GRASS wiki, but for now  
> it's all in the readme.
>
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Brandon M. Gabler wrote:
>
>> Since we're on this topic, I need to ask a question about updating  
>> using Kyng's 6.3 builds on OSX. Say I have a version of 6.3 from  
>> Kyngesburye installed. Then I add additional scripts to the  
>> package. Then Kyng releases a new build with upgraded features  
>> from the newest 6.3cvs. How do I then upgrade the build without  
>> losing the scripts that I added? I imagine I would need to compile  
>> from source and then do a cvs update, similar to what I've seen  
>> done on linux machines, but I am unfamiliar with how I would do  
>> that properly on my mac. So for all of us GRASS OSX users out  
>> there, how do we keep the most up-to-date features of GRASS  
>> without losing addons?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brandon
>
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