[GRASS-user] Installation Issues on CentOS8

[Markus Neteler]

Michael,

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:36 AM mdwxman via grass-user
<grass-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> I don't often compile software on CentOS but even this one has me confused. I'm attempting to install some version of GRASS 7.8 on a CentOS 8 box and I've been attempting to do so, on off for the last 6 months.

I did the same and it was a bumpy ride. Reason: a lot of packages were
missing. I even had to become package maintainer in Fedora to push
PROJ and GDAL packages...

> There have been several different errors and I've attempted to use conda, conda with a local environment using Python 3.6., yum, and DNF. There are two types of errors: one is the failure to find the gui (g.gui).

The GUI issue was there till the end of November. Reason: wxpython4
package missing, see here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765573

It has finally been provided.

> The other involves a complete stop.
>
> This time I've used the grass-7.8.0.tar.gz files from the GRASS geo site.

Please use at least 7.8.4, soon 7.8.5 for relevant bugfixes:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.8.5-News

> The lastest attempt results in a stop in the ./configure line at:
>
> include/Make/Vars.make:1: included/Make/Platform.make: No such file or directory
>
> Since it stopped I attempted to use:
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> make: *** No rule to make target 'include/Make/'. Stop.
>
> I've installed all required libraries and other applications (I think).

Please see here:

https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#CentOS
--> Centos8

> I am a newbie with compilers but does anyone have some help for this.
>
> The machine is a Centos 8 machine with 7 Tb disk storage and running a 16-core Ryzen CPU at 4125 MHz.

THat should be perfectly fine.

> Thanks. I hope someone can help.

Hope the Wiki instructions help - if not, let us know.

Markus

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