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

[Alex Mandel]

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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