[GRASS-user] How to install Grass into Ubuntu

[Moritz Lennert]

On 22/10/08 14:53, Matt B wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Glynn Clements 
> <glynn at gclements.plus.com <mailto:glynn at gclements.plus.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Matt B wrote:
> 
>      > I'm using Grass on ubuntu 8.04. Weird thing is that unless I run
>     it "sudo
>      > grass" I get a bunch of errors (and it's unusable) related to
>     grass not
>      > having the correct permissions to write to where I keep the data
>     (ie the
>      > users home directory). It's not a show stoppper at the moment and
>     only
>      > slightly annoying. I'm not sure why this is but I have some ideas
>     to hunt
>      > down when I get time. I used the standard ubuntu install and
>     assume its
>      > something to do with the ubuntu setup script.
> 
>     Note that GRASS won't let you select a mapset as the current mapset
>     (where new files are stored) unless you own it. Write permission isn't
>     sufficient.
> 
>     If you are creating a location which is to be shared by multiple
>     users, you either need to create a mapset directory for each user,
>     owned by the user, or grant all such users write permission on the
>     location directory so that they can create their own mapset directory
>     (which they will own).
> 
>     --
>     Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com
>     <mailto:glynn at gclements.plus.com>>
> 
>  
> Thanks for the heads up on this Glynn, my problem is that I'm on a dual 
> boot system and I'm storing mapsets/data on an NTFS drive. It's being 
> automatically mounted with the owner set as root and read/write 
> permission for everyone. If I put the data on the ext3 filesystem, it 
> works. I'll mess around with fstab and mount the data drive as the 
> appropriate user.


Also see this thread: 
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-windows/2008-October/001544.html

Especially:
"I solved the problem with setting uid=my_user_name in the
fstab-file."

Moritz