[GRASS-user] I need help

[Philipp Steigenberger]

Paul Kelly wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Paul Kelly wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:
>>
>>>>> I execute the command sh grass6install.sh
>>>>> grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz and he doesn't find the directory.
>>
>> Can you give the exact command-line you typed, and the exact error 
>> mesage (copied and pasted). This would make it a lot easier to debug.
>>
>> [...]
>>> You have to unpack the tar.gz by
>>>
>>> tar xvfz grass-6.2.2.tar.gz_Linux_bin.tar.gz
>>
>> No that's not correct. grass6install.sh is the binary installer script
> 
> Replying to myself, sorry I missed the very weird looking filename there 
> (tar.gz in the middle and at the end doesn't look right). I think 
> Philipp is right and it is actually a source distribution tarball but 
> has been renamed with bin in the name just to confuse things In which 
> case his instructions about ./configure, make etc. apply. I'm really 
> just guessing though.
> 
> Paul

Raonel, I would suggest that you download again the actual stable version:

Here http://grass.itc.it/download/index.php
(optionally you can choose the mirror nearest to you here: 
http://grass.itc.it/mirrors.php)

you can choose your distribution in the binary column. Or you download 
the sourcecode and compile it by yourself (more complicated):

http://grass.itc.it/grass62/source/grass-6.2.3.tar.gz

suerte
Philipp