[GRASS-user] Going back to 6.3

Adam Dershowitz adershowitz at exponent.com
Mon Dec 1 14:57:07 EST 2008


On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 8:51 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Kurt Springs wrote:
>>
>>>> If you are using my GRASS 6.3, there is no need to delete  
>>>> ActiveTcl.  It has its own internal TclTk X11 binaries that it  
>>>> explicitly uses.  In fact, no need to delete 6.3 before  
>>>> installing 6.4.
>>>
>>> 6.4 actually overwrote 6.3.  I'd assumed the reverse would be true.
>>
>> Odd, GRASS 6.3 and 6.4 have different names:
>>
>> GRASS-6.3.app
>> GRASS-6.4.app
>>
>>>
>
> I can confirm that the 6.4 install doesn't actually delete  
> GRASS-6.3.app, it just "empties" it out.  So that it is now 6.5 meg,  
> while it used to be much larger (6.4 is 74 meg).  And when I double  
> click on 6.3 I get a error in my log:
> posix_spawnp("/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
> GRASS", ...): No such file or directory
>
> So it looks like the 6.4 installer deletes most, but not all, of the  
> stuff that was in 6.3._______________________________________________

I just tested it and just re-installing 6.3, while 6.4 is there, seems  
to allow both to coexist fine.



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