[GRASS-user] grass72 or higher on RHEL6

[Anna Petrášová]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:21 AM, joerg robl <joerg.robl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear GRASS Gurus,
>
>
>
> I’m using GRASS GIS for research and teaching on a server with a rather old
> Linux (RHEL6). We use GRASS GIS for processing satellite images (LANDSAT8)
> which is the main motivation to update to grass72.
>
>
>
> I’ve compiled grass from source up to version 7.1 but unfortunately I get
> compilation errors compiling grass72 or higher (the configure script does
> not complain about any problems). It seems the compilation problems may be
> related to the rather old matplotlib (0.9x) while grass requires matplotlib
>> 1.2. As a result, the GRASS GUI crashes after the startup. Of course it
> may be possible to compile matplotlib from source, which however requires a
> higher version of numpy which in turn requires at least python2.7x instead
> of the installed python 2.6x. Not necessary to say that after compiling and
> installing python2.7x the wxPhyton libs would also require an update … ! At
> that point I ended up compiling grass72 on RHEL6.
>

could you show us any errors you are getting during compilation or
startup? Matplotlib is not a core component, so this should be
solvable.

Anna

>
>
> I’m just wondering if there is a standalone version of GRASS GIS for Linux,
> similar to the Windows version, where all libs are statically linked and
> packed together.
>
> Any ideas how to bring grass72 or the bleeding edge 7.3 up and running on
> RHEL6.
>
>
>
> cheers Jörg
>
>
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