[GRASS-user] Get plugins Ubuntu - Compile with Debian

[Rebecca Bennett]

Hello all,

Unfortunately I'm really struggling with getting the plugins to work on Grass 6.4.2 Ubuntu 12.04 so I'm hoping someone can help!

I spotted this listing for the exact same problem http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/installing-addons-grass-6-4-3svn-ubuntu-11-10-td4498897.html
and tried to follow the instuctions it linked to for compiling grass with Debian rules but I get stuck here:

# In your favorite text editor open debian/changelog and adjust the
# version number on the top line to reflect the GRASS SVN checkout number.
# e.g. for r50540: grass (6.4.2~rc3+svn50540-0) unstable; urgency=low nano debian/changelog
But there is no changelog file, only a changelog.gz. So I edited the file in the gz as instructed and extracted it to the debian folder.
Now when I try to run debuild -i -uc -us -b

debuild: fatal error at line 627:
cannot find readable debian/changelog anywhere!
Are you in the source code tree?

I don't know what to do next so if anyone could help I would be very, very grateful!

Many thanks for reading,
Rebecca





>________________________________
> From: Rebecca Bennett <rabennett at ymail.com>
>To: Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> 
>Cc: "grass-user at lists.osgeo.org" <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 10:56
>Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to locate Curses Includes
> 
>
>Great thanks Madi - I'd used that approach for the two earlier errors when running this command but couldn't find a package relating to curses in my search for unintalled packages (probably due to the curses but being surrounded by other letters!)
>
>Incedentally non-of the add-ons are working through the gui - I know this is a freqently reported problem to which the only guaranteed solution (after scouring the mailing list and trying solutions posted here http://planetflux.adamwilson.us/2012/02/installing-grass-extensions-on-ubuntu.html and http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/43974) appears to be to compile from source.
>
>...I wanted large file support anyway so I was just being lazy to only use the Ubuntu:GIS repository version :)
>
>cheers!
>Rebecca
>
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>>________________________________
>> From: Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>>To: Rebecca Bennett <rabennett at ymail.com> 
>>Cc: "grass-user at lists.osgeo.org" <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
>>Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 10:46
>>Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to locate Curses Includes
>> 
>>
>>Dear Rebecca,
>>
>>
>>On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Rebecca Bennett <rabennett at ymail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Dear Grass Users,
>>>
>>>Trying to compile 6.4.3 from source on Ubuntu 12.04 in order to get at the add-ons which are not working in my prepackaged install.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Which add-on is not working? 
>>
>>>Following these instructions (http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu) I check out the release_20121024_grass_6_4_3RC1 get as far as 
>>>./configure \
>>>
>>>but get the following error:
>>>checking for long long int... yes
>>>checking for W11... no
>>>checking for X... no
>>>checking whether to use Curses... yes
>>>checking for curses.h... no
>>>configure: error: *** Unable to locate curses includes.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions / ideas welcome!
>>>
>>
>>
>>I think you miss libncurses5-dev.
>>In general, when you get an error like this, you can do the search yourself here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/ 
>>You have to search "contents of packages" and specify your version/distribution.
>>
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>
>>
>>madi
>>
>>-- 
>>Margherita DI LEO  
>>
>>Postdoctoral Researcher   
>>European Commission - DG JRC  
>>Forest Resources and Climate     
>>I-21020 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 
>>        
>>Tel. +39 0332 78 3600    
>>margherita.di-leo at jrc.ec.europa.eu
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