[GRASS-user] installing addon problem for regular users (ubuntu newbies)

[M S]

I just installed from ubuntugis, and the package is
grass_6.4.0~rc5-3~karmic1_amd64.deb, which I presume to be 64bit.

I have problems compiling addons (using ubuntugis).

Mark

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Horacio Samaniego
<horacio.samaniego at gmail.com> wrote:
> At this point I'm not sure... but believe that I had the ppa on my
> repositories...
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Were you using the default package in Ubuntu or the ones from Ubuntugis
>> PPA?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Horacio Samaniego wrote:
>> > Dear Nathan,
>> >
>> > I discovered that the origin of the problem seem to be that the grass
>> > package in ubuntu is not compiled using 64bit libs and that to my
>> > understanding it's what's giving us problems. I concluded that by the
>> > nature
>> > of the error I was getting. So., I kind of went the long way... I
>> > repackaged
>> > grass for my architecture using:
>> >
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get source grass # downloads the source tree in current dir
>> > cd grass*
>> > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot # will generate all the -dev -doc packages.
>> > best to use sudo?
>> > sudo dpkg -i ../*grass*deb # will install everything
>> >
>> > Once you've gone through that, you can simply install addons the normel
>> > way.
>> > Which is:
>> >
>> > download addon to /usr/lib/grass64/ raster or vector (depending on the
>> > type
>> > of addon) and make, make compile
>> >
>> >
>> > that solved the problem and created a real 64bit grass package along the
>> > way. The key seem to be that the installation of the -dev package
>> > provides
>> > all the libraries to install new addon. The problem arises when you
>> > simply
>> > install grass from the repository which is NOT 64bit!! but nonetheless
>> > functional.
>> >
>> > I hope that this will help!
>> >
>> > I'll post this solution to the wiki if nobody objects my assessment of
>> > this
>> > particular issue. So, please, comment on it if you have a deeper
>> > understanding of this than we have...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > H
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Currit, Nathan Allen
>> > <currit at txstate.edu>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Horacio,
>> >>
>> >> I saw you question posted on <org.osgeo.lists.grass-user>, but I do not
>> >> see
>> >> any responses.  Did you find a solution to your problem?  I have the
>> >> same
>> >> problem.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Nate
>> >>
>> >> ***********
>> >> Nate Currit
>> >> Texas State University - San Marcos
>> >> Department of Geography
>> >> San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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