[GRASS-user] GRASS GIS 7.03 for Mac OS X, problem with wxPython (missing)

[Adam Dershowitz]

I use Macports for a  bunch of other things (and Homebrew is incompatible
with Macports)   So, I figured that I would just tried to install grass7
using macports.  It does seem to install, but the gui doesn’t work:

 $grass70 
Cleaning up temporary files...
Starting GRASS GIS...
ERROR: wxGUI requires wxPython. No module named wxversion
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please report this error to the GRASS
developers.
Switching to text mode now.


Hit RETURN to continue...



This is odd, since wxpython is installed.
But, it seems like this is a different problem.


-- Adam






On 3/15/16, 9:50 AM, "Rainer M Krug" <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:

>Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> writes:
>
>> The reason is that I (and William) package some key dependencies with
>> the binary. The most important is wxPython, which is required by the
>> GUI. If a user does not have exactly the same version of wxPython used
>> to compile the binary, the GUI will fail. Making this more complicated
>> is the fact that the only versions of wxPython that work completely
>> correctly with Mac GRASS are 32 bit. But some other components are 64
>> bit. This means that I need to compile GRASS with 32/64 bit dual
>> architecture. So this is a consequence of making binaries that run on
>> anyone's Mac (except the newest system with SIP enabled).
>
>OK - so if I understand you correctly, installing via homebrew, should
>not be that difficult, as GRASS is compiled for a specific wxPython -
>correct?
>
>
>
>>
>> Michael
>> ____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
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>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
>> Arizona State University
>>
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>>
>>     On Mar 15, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Carlos Grohmann
>>     <carlos.grohmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>     
>>     I run GRASS on OSX El Capitan (with SIP disabled). I don't think
>>     that setting up a CLI-only version would be a solution as well. As
>>     Rainer said, other software runs natively (see QGIS) and they
>>     don't have any problems with OSX/SIP. We should look into that.
>>     
>>     
>>     I don't understand why GRASS is offending SIP. Perhaps we should
>>     seek out for help from others. Maybe Apple itself.
>>     
>>     
>>     One point is that we need to disable SIP for the binary provided
>>     by Michael Barton, but not if you compile it from source (or using
>>     homebrew), so this could be fixable by changing paths, like Adam
>>     suggested. Homebrew uses /usr/local, why can't we?
>>     
>>     
>>     best
>>     
>>     
>>     Carlos
>>     
>>     
>>     
>>     
>>     
>>     
>>     On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Adam Dershowitz
>>     <adershowitz at exponent.com> wrote:
>>     
>>     Yes, SIP is a new security feature that prevents any applications
>>         from
>>         writing to a few key OS paths. I believe that it really is
>>         that simple.
>>         (see: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899 )
>>         Which, does beg the questionŠwhy does running GRASS require
>>         writes to any
>>         of these folders? That suggests that GRASS is doing something
>>         that it
>>         shouldn¹t be doing. Why should it be writing to system folders
>>         at all at
>>         runtime?
>>         It is the only application that I have run into that has any
>>         problems with
>>         SIP. It would seem that this should be an easy fix. (for
>>         example just
>>         use /usr/local instead of /usr, or whatever the problem folder
>>         is).
>>         
>>         
>>         -- Adam
>>         
>>         
>>
>>     
>>     
>>     -- 
>>     
>>     
>>     Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann
>>     Institute of Energy and Environment - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil
>>     - Digital Terrain Analysis | GIS | Remote Sensing -
>>     
>>     
>>     http://carlosgrohmann.com
>>     http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5073-5572
>>     
>>     ________________
>>     Can’t stop the signal.
>>
>>
>
>-- 
>Rainer M. Krug
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