[GRASS-user] Help with installing GRASS 7 on linux mint 14

[Eric Goddard]

Sorry, Linux Mint 14 is based on ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).
Looking at the package lists at
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-testing, it
appears that they don't have packages built for that version of
ubuntu, which is why you are getting the not found errors. It looks
like you'll have to compile grass7 manually for Linux Mint 14.

Since that ppa is unsupported on your version, you should install
ppa-purge and remove it:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ubuntugis-testing

You can compile grass by adding the ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
repository (which will work for Linux Mint 14) to install dependencies
and then compile grass7. I compile several other packages as well so
the following list of dependencies may be overkill for just grass but
it should get the job done:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential gdal libgeos-dev libspatialite3
libspatialite-dev libcurl4-nss-dev byacc ncurses-dev bison gsl-bin
libgsl0-dev libexpat1-dev libexpat1 libproj0 libproj-dev libgeotiff2
libgeotiff-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev swig python-psycopg2 python-numpy
python-sip python-sip-dev python-wxgtk2.8 curl unixodbc unixodbc-dev
libkml0 libkml-dev proj-bin flex libpng12-0 libpng12-dev
mesa-common-dev freeglut3-dev tcl-dev tk8.5-dev libfftw3-3
libfftw3-dev libxmu-dev libqwt-dev libspatialindex-dev libopenjpeg-dev
git subversion libcairo2-dev libpoppler-dev libboost1.50-all-dev

#Download the grass7 source to /home/<username>/source:
mkdir ~/source
cd ~/source
svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass7_trunk
cd grass_trunk

#Configure grass7 for compile. This command varies based on what
options you need but this should work:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/grass70 --enable-largefile
--with-sqlite --with-freetype=yes
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj --with-python --with-cxx
--with-wxwidgets --with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.5
--with-odbc=yes --enable-64bit --with-geos=yes --with-cairo=yes

#if configure runs without reporting any errors you're ready to compile:
make

#Make will take awhile to complete, but if no errors are returned
you're ready to install.
sudo make install

You should now have grass7 installed to /usr/local/grass7. The final
step is to link the grass7 executable to your /usr/local/bin/ folder
so that you can run grass from the command line by just typing
'grass70':
sudo ln -s /usr/local/grass70/bin/grass70 /usr/local/bin/grass70


Eric






On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:47 AM, דור פרידמן <dof1985 at gmail.com> wrote:
> After running the commands I've received the following:
>
> Fetched 1,639 kB in 11s (145 kB/s)
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/source/Sources
> 404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> 404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources
> 404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> 404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 404  Not Found
>
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
> dof1985 at dof1985-K53E ~ $ sudo apt-get install grass70
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package grass70
>
> Can it be fixed?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> 2013/3/25 Eric Goddard <egoddard1010 at gmail.com>
>>
>> Adding the repository for testing just provides the package manager
>> with the locations of the packages--you still have to install grass.
>> After you add the repository, from the terminal run:
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install grass70
>>
>> The first command refreshes the repositories, and the second one will
>> download grass7 and its dependencies. To run grass7, enter grass7 into
>> the terminal.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>> > On 03/25/2013 04:16 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:01 PM, דור פרידמן <dof1985 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ...
>> >
>> > However due to my lack of experience with Linux and due
>> > to the fact that the Grass 7 has not yet come within an installation
>> > package, I couldn't make it work.
>> >
>> > I recently updated the download pages:
>> >
>> > http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/linux/
>> > http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/ms-windows/
>> > http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/
>> >
>> > with links to the GRASS 7 snapshot installers. Perhaps that helps?
>> >
>> >
>> > I also try to run grass70 and/or grass70. in the command console, but it
>> > didn't help.
>> >
>> >
>> > Also, what do these commands show:
>> > which grass
>> > which grass70
>> > ??
>> >
>> >
>> > What didn't work exactly? Then we may fix it.
>> >
>> > Markus
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Micha Silver
>> > GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co.
>> > http://www.surfaces.co.il
>> >
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