[GRASS-user] Problems to launch QGIS from GRASS

[William Kyngesburye]

On Dec 11, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Hamish wrote:

> José wrote:
>> When I check the echo $PATH from within GRASS
>> session, this is the message,
>> 
>> GRASS 6.4.1 (spearfish60):~ > echo $PATH
>> /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/scripts:/Users/joseca/Library/GRASS/6.4/Modules/bin:/Library/GRASS/6.4/Modules/bin:/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/unix/bin:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Programs:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
>> 
>> 
>> GRASS 6.4.1 (spearfish60):~ > qgis
>> bash: qgis: command not found
>> 
>> I do not know how to solve it but I am very
>> grateful to your help.
> 
> ah ok, this is a Mac.
> 
> first thing to do is to hunt down the qgis executable and get it into one of the $PATH directories.
> 
> try like:
> 
> ls -l /Applications/QuantumGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/
> 
> and look for a qgis file (not directory) with "x" permissions.
> 
> once you have that make a symlink into /usr/local/bin
> 
> ln -s /Applications/QuantumGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/qgis /usr/local/bin/
> 
> 
> you might have to put "sudo" before the symlink to get it to work.
> 
> (not sure of exact qgis pathnames, but something
> similar to the above)


I was wondering if you were on OS X...

Note that this symlink method really isn't the proper way to start an *application* on OS X.  Running an application from the command line in the standard *nix execute way ignores existing running processes, and will start another if one is already running.

The simplest solution is to just start Qgis the normal way by double-clicking the application.

If you really must start it from within GRASS, then the OS X way is to "open" applications:

open -a QGIS.app

There is no need to symlink QGIS to /usr/local/bin, and no need to know the path to QGIS.app.

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