[GRASS-user] tips on GRASS Mac users

[maning sambale]

Great! Thanks for the tips.  Using the mac right now.  This screen is huge
maning

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2008, at 7:19 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org>
> <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:18:48 -0500
>> From: William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] tips on GRASS Mac users
>> To: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>> Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> Message-ID: <59D9BD06-FDDD-4209-B3B4-C45505AAF1EA at kyngchaos.com>
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>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:29 AM, maning sambale wrote:
>>
>>> By the end of this week we will have a new imac as a GIS workstation,
>>> I am familiar with GRASS on linux and windows, but not on a mac.  I
>>> know GRASS and QGIS install OK on a mac, so that won't be a problem.
>>> Any other advise/caveats/warning as we do the migrate?  We will still
>>> be using our linux machine for GRASS in parallel with mac,
>>> specifically:
>>
>> Overall, OSX is much like *nix, since it's unix-based.
>>
>>>
>>> 1. all GRASS database files should be accessible on both machines, I'm
>>> thinking of using the mac as the GRASS database repo (since it has a
>>> larger Hdd capacity) and have linux read/write access
>>
>> OSX should have Unix file sharing, but you may have to dig around to
>> configure and enable it.  Easiest on the Mac side would be Appleshare
>> (AFP), and I think there is Linux client software for that.  Or you
>> could use Windows file sharing on the Mac (it uses Samba), and it
>> would also be available to Windows machines.
>>
>> Watch out for lots of network activity, though.  You probably don't
>> want to write data over the network, lots of temp file usage in
>> GRASS.  I'd say symlink common data mapsets to your linux
>> workstation's GRASS data dir, and only do active work directly on the
>> linux ws, then copy to the Mac when done.
>>
>> mac mount
>>    grassdb
>>        location
>> linux grassdb
>>    readonly loc -> mac mount/grassdb/location
>>    working loc
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Shell scripts are usable on both machines
>>
>> FYI the default shell on OSX is bash.  AND, sh IS bash.  Other shells
>> are available if you prefer another.
>>
>>>
>>> 3. Remotely access linux machine on the mac
>>>
>> No problems there.  I use ssh all the time for shell access between
>> Macs.  VNC would be nice for GUI access.  OSX Leopard, which you will
>> get on a new Mac, includes a nice builtin VNC client, and there are
>> other free ones available.
>
> To William's sage advice, I'd add....
>
> 1) If you are installing binaries from William Kyngesbury's site, don't
> forget to install the frameworks (i.e., dependencies) first.
> 2) Make sure that you have x11 installed if you are using the TclTk
> interface. I think it is finally installing by default with OS X 10.5, but
> it is an optional install on all other Mac OS X systems. You need to get it
> from your system disks.
> 3) If you want to try the new wxPython interface, it *should* work with the
> Python and wxPython that comes with OS X 10.5. For any earlier systems, you
> will need to install this yourself because the version of Python that came
> with prior systems is too old and did not include wxPython. You might want
> to get a new version of Python and wxPython anyway. But if you do a BIG
> CAVEAT!! Unless it's been fixed in recent weeks, do NOT get the current
> wxPython 2.8.8.0. The Mac binary installation does not include some files
> that are used in a startup version check (i.e., the *.py files; it only has
> the *.pyo binaries) and the GUI will not start.
>
> Michael
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