[GRASS-user] Grass Installation on mac - not working

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2013-02-07 9:16, Erika Zarate Torres wrote:
> Dear GRASS community,
>
> I am new to GRASS and have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I followed the
> instructions in http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass and installed
> the following:
> 1-) GDAL complete 1.9
> 2-) Free Type
> 3-) cairo
> 4-) PIL
> 5-) GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 (Snow Leopard)
> 6-) GRASS GDAL PlugIn
>

GRASS.app 6.4.2-5 from kyngchaos.com works fine on my  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.

>
> Actually all I want is to view and work with some river basin shape
> files I downloaded, using an open source GIS.
>

I would suggest to start with QGIS, http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis.


Regards, Hermann