[GRASS-user] problems running grass7 on Ubuntu 12.04

[Johan Nilsson]

I have exactly the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit. Get also the same
error message.


2013/2/27 Chad Ferguson <terrafergus at gmail.com>

> I initially installed grass using the ppa, although I mistakenly used the
> unstable ppa (as opposed to testing) so my first GRASS install was 6.x.
> Upon noticing my error, I added the testing ppa and then had GRASS 6.x and
> 7.  I removed both from my system, as per Nikos suggestion, and reinstalled
> using the apt-get update.
>
> currently, this is what is returned in the terminal:
>
> chad at chad-Satellite-S855:~$ grass70
>
> /usr/bin/grass70: 25: exec: /usr/lib/grass70/etc/Init.sh: not found
>
> thanks for the help
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2013/2/27 Chad Ferguson <terrafergus at gmail.com>:
>> > I did as you suggested.  Uninstalled, added the ppa and reinstalled but
>> > unfortunately I am receiving the same error--
>> >
>> >  /usr/lib/grass70/etc/Init.sh: No such file or directory
>>
>> huh, seems like that the package you installed is badly broken. GRASS
>> 7 uses python script for initialization, not the shell script as GRASS
>> 6. This is probably due the fact that the maintainer didn't used
>> debian rules when building the package. Before providing such packages
>> it should be fixed.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> --
>> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
>>
>
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