[GRASS-user] Re: Grass 6.4.2 on Ubuntu 11.10

[Bulent Arikan]

Thank you for your input. Yes, I misspoke: I should have said that I was looking for relatively bug-free version of GRASS for Linux. I must also mention that the version of Linux installed on computers is beyond my control since it is a lab maintained by others. 

The version the computers are running is Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit ( https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html ). 

The "archaic" looking GRASS 6.4 came from 
( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable ): they reached this link from the following address 
( http://grass.fbk.eu/download/software.php#g64x ). I realize that this is a mirror site in Europe and I think that this last link has some problematic versions of GRASS. I had Windows version (6.4) installed from this address for my class last semester and there were a lot of problems with mapcalc, gregion, and v.in.ogr. I will try finding the link for GRASS 7, which had problems so that it can be fixed.

As for Linux GRASS 6.4 issue: I only typed GRASS in Terminal and GUI came up however, I will try what you suggested (grass64 -gui). 


Meanwhile, can anyone suggest a link for GRASS 6.4 for the version of Ubuntu I have to work with?
   

Thanks,

Bulent



On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:59 PM, barikan <bulent.arikan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> As a follow-up on this issue, and as a person who never installed GRASS on
>> Linux, I wanted to ask the Forum if there is a version of GRASS 6.x that
>> will run on 32-bit system, which has a similar look to the most recent Unix
>> interface.
> 
> If you install a Linux distro package, it should come in either 64 or 32 bit
> depending on your system. Unfortunately some distros are quite lagging
> behind with the packaging.
> 
>> I installed 6.4.2 from the US Tier#2 web site of GRASS (the link
>> gave the date of 2009)
> 
> Can you please indicate the link? Anything which should be fixed?
> 
>> but I am sure that the interface looked archaic.
> 
> Probably you did not start with "-gui" parameter and GRASS used
> an old (tcl) setting from a previous run of GRASS on that machine.
> Try (later it will remember):
> 
> grass64 -gui
> 
>> It is important that the version is free of bugs since it will be used for a
>> workshop designed for beginners. I will appreciate your suggestions.
> 
> Say "minimized number of bugs" - bugfree software hardly exists.
> GRASS 6.4.2 should be very good for teaching, I used in happily in
> a course recently.
> 
>> * I also installed GRASS 7 but there are issues with vector import and basic
>> analyses.
> 
> Please indicate which issues you found (otherwise we cannot fix them).
> 
> Markus

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