[GRASS-user] Missing some tools: v.db.addcol, for example

[Nikos Alexandris]

Roger André wrote:
> Hi Markus,

> Thanks for your inquiry about this.  Everything works now, after
> having moved all scripts from sub-directory into $GISBASE/scripts.
> I'm teaching myself how to use GRASS with your excellent book, so I am
> far from being an expert at installation and configuration options.
> However in response to Nikos's question, I am not sure how changing
> permissions would have solved this problem.

My bad Roger. I was looking at the source code tree.

>  Following the defined
> $PATH would only bring you to the directory, and not the script
> itself.  It would seem to me that part of the make process would be to
> copy these scripts into the correct directory, but since they appear
> to be the same place... I dunno.

How did you perform the installation, if I may ask?

Nikos
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Nikos Alexandris
> <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 15:01 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> >>
> >> > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > > My PATH while in GRASS already contains the scripts dir:
> >> >
> >> > > > GRASS 6.4.0RC4 (colombia):~ > echo $PATH
> >> > > > /usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC4/bin:/usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC4/scripts:<snip>
> >> >
> >> > Mine too (the grass-6.4.0svn version).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > > What I did find is that each script is under a directory by the same
> >> > > > name in the scripts dir.  So for example, d.redraw is in:
> >> > > > /usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC4/scripts/d.redraw/d.redraw
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 11:44 +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> >> > > Wow. This is not desired of course. I am a bit surprised.
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 12:18 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> >>
> >> [Replying to myself]
> >>
> >> > Maybe I don't get that right but I have grass64_release, grass640_0rc5,
> >> > grass6_devel, grass_trunk. In all of them the scripts (sub-)directory
> >> > contains a directory for each script. In each script-directory there are
> >> > description (html) files and also README, Makefiles, etc.
> >> >
> >> > Isn't this ok?
> >>
> >> Yes it is (for the source code :-). Under /usr/local/grass... (the
> >> installed stuff; currently I use the 64 version) all scripts are bare
> >> files under the scripts directory.
> >>
> >>
> >> > > > I'm going through all of these now, and removing the dir and leaving
> >> > > > the script.  Somewhat tedious, but the scripts appear to work.
> >> >
> >> > > Would you mind to check if this is still valid for RC5?
> >
> > I've installed grass-6.4.0RC5 and there is no problem. Scripts (all of
> > them I suppose seem to) work fine ~ I 've tested several.
> >
> > Nikos
> >
> >
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