[GRASS-user] Grass on MacOS

[Ken Mankoff]

Hi Adam,

I'm glad to hear you got GRASS working on OS X w/ MacPorts. That is the system I use too. I recently switched from HomeBrew. I got GRASS working with fink too, but prefer MacPorts, although there are some MacPort-specific issues if you want to use the temporal framework.

I found it helpful to set GRASS_PYTHON and have it pointing to

export GRASS_PYTHON=/opt/local/bin/python2.7

I don't like installing 3rd-party frameworks, so I also have QGIS installed via MacPorts and it works well.

For GRASS, I had to "sudo port install gdal +netcdf" in order to be able to read in NetCDF files. For QGIS I did "sudo port install QGIS +qt4 +grass".

  -k.


On 2018-01-14 at 00:37, Adam Dershowitz <adershowitz at exponent.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but…I use Macports for a bunch of things, and homebrew and
> maports don’t play well together. So, I can’t easily do that. I did
> get the macports version to work after I asked the question. It was
> actually just due to the fact that I have been using the Kyngchoas
> version for a long time, and that used to require that GRASS_PYTHON be
> set in .bash_profile. But, I had set it to point to an old directory a
> while back, and that folder didn’t exist. So, I just had to delete
> that environmental variable and the macports version now works fine.
> And, the Kyngchaos version of qgis does seem to work fine.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I suppose that it would be useful to have
> working binaries to avoid these kinds of issues.