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

[Horacio Samaniego]

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
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
Horacio Samaniego, PhD
Instituto de Silvicultura
Facultad de Ciencias Forestales
Universidad Austral de Chile
Valdivia, Chile

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