[GRASS-user] Unable to create new project with Grass 6.2.2 in Ubuntu 7.1

[Jan Schorn]

Hi, list
I installed GRASS 6.2.3 in about 14 computers with i368 architecture and
Ubuntu 7.10 (Les-ejk repositorios). The only way to create a new Location is
using QGIS.
Using GRASS the error explained by Matt occurs.
¿Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jan


2008/1/11, Matt <mlpublic42 at gmail.com>:
>
> I am unable to create a new location/project in Grass.  Since I am new to
> both Linux/Ubuntu and Grass there are a nearly infinite ways to go wrong.  I
> have Ubuntu 7.10 installed.  I used Synaptic to install Grass 6.2.2 .  I
> have been able to start Grass and play with the Spearfish and North Carolina
> datasets.  I've made it to page 37 in "Open Source GIS A Grass GIS Approach,
> 3rd ed."  As interesting as North Carolina is, I yearn to create a map of
> western New York.  But when I try to create a new project closer to home, I
> get nowhere.  All the tutorials I've come across treat this as trivial, but
> I'm stuck!
>
> Starting Grass from the "Run Application" applet ("run in terminal" box
> checked), starts Grass in the terminal window and a Grass Startup GUI window
> appears.  Using the Browse button I enter "/home/matt/grass/grassdata" in
> the GIS Data Directory box.  The previous created directory map1 appears in
> the project location box and the Accessible Mapsets window is empty.  At
> this point I've tried several things.  If before starting Grass I put a
> Tiger shp file ( tgr36029lkA.shp) into map1, I'm unable to use it.  If I
> click on EPSG codes and select 4326 and click "Define Location" it tells me
> to restart Grass to find the created location.  When restarted the location
> is not there.
>
> Any ideas?  Especially how to start a new project using a Tiger shape
> file? (Remember, novice).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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