[GRASS-user] Suse 12.3, GRASS 6.4.3 - addons not possible to install - SOLVED!

[Vaclav Petras]

Hi,

I'm sending this to the grass-dev list since it is more a developer topic.

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Lars Forseth <lars.forseth at ntebb.no> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I just solved a long standing issue with GRASS 6.4.3 on my pc, under
> SuSE 12.3 linux. I use the GEO repository for all GIS packages.
>
> Since long I have not been able to install plugins/add-ons in GRASS,
> either through the commandline or the menu (wxpython gui).
>
> Yesterday I discovered why! In the standard GRASS 6.4.3 package under
> GEO:repository for SUSE 12.3, the g.html2man script is missing! Since
> this seems to be essential under the install procedure for addons,
> attempts to install add-ons failes!
>
> Remedy (for my part); downloaded the sourcepackage for grass 6.4.3;
> found g.html2man script and copied it to /opt/grass/tools, and made
> scertain it had the right permissions! And now I can install add-ons!
>

This is a good point that `g.html2man` is also required when you want to
install extensions from addons (probably for all platforms). Moreover, I
think that `make` and compile tools in general are required on unix-like
platforms to install (which means in fact compile) extensions from addons.

Regards
> larsf
>
> PS! How do I communicate this bug to the GEO repository maintainers?
>

All the packagers should be notified about this. This should be probably
part of GRASS compile instructions but I'm not sure where is the right
place to put it.

Best,
Vaclav

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