[GRASS-user] Wxpython GUI in UBUNTU 9.10

[Kim Besson]

Hi all
Leonardo suggested me to run as "sudo grass64 -wxpython" and it worked.
Why do I need to run as SUDO to "fix" this?

2010/1/20 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>

> Kim wrote:
> > ok Now it's working
> > but I got another ERROR and I guess this one has nothing to
> > do with WXpython.
> > An error windows stating
> >
> > ERROR in command
> > execution g.region
> > Unable to get current geographic extent. Force quiting wxGUI.
> > Please run manually g.region to fix the problem.
> >
> > When I press ok the window and GUI closes and it get back to
> > TERMINAL.
> >
> > Any tips of what is
> > happening?
>
> can you start up in text mode ('grass64 -text', then esc-enter)
> and run 'g.region -p' from the command line?
>
> (typically this error means a mis-match in the GDAL install
> version, but you have to run g.region from the command line
> to see the real error message & find out. [devs: why can't the
> GUI propgate the g.region error message for us?])
>
>
> Hamish
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