[GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

[Nikos Alexandris]

Hi!


On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 03:38 +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > 2. Launching grass63 (release fetched with svn,
> > configured-compiled-installed) does not have any problems.
> 
> Is that not a good solution to your problems then? 

It is for me. Not for a couple of friends with which we had a common
GRASS session today... and they just installed current stable versions
from the Ubuntu repo's.

> The location creation 
> through the start-up GUI was all very experimental prior to 6.3; a lot of 
> things have been cleaned up since 6.2 - and the changes were too 
> complicated and extensive to be easily backported.
> 
> > My questions is:
> >
> > What is the difference when creating a new LOCATION in text mode from
> > trying to do so with the GUI (EPSG's or Georef.file)?
> 
> The GUI uses g.proj in the background; "Create using projection values" 
> uses $ETC/set_data. They both create new locations but do so in completely 
> different ways and the locations they create are slightly different in 
> several subtle ways - hopefully these days we've ironed out most of the 
> incompatibilities between them.
> But note that you can also run g.proj from 
> the command-line if you want - check the man page for details; it has lots 
> of options for creating new locations and the GUI is just another layer on 
> top of this.
> 
> Paul

Thank you all!
-- 
Nikos Alexandris
.
Department of Remote Sensing & Landscape Information Systems
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
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Tel.  +49 (0) 761 203 3697 / Fax.  +49 (0) 761 203 3701 / Skype: Nikos.Alexandris
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Address: Tennenbacher str. 4, D-79106 Freiburg i. Br., Germany
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