[GRASS-user] Installation Issues on CentOS8

[mdwxman]

Thank you Markus. I’m glad I stuck with GRASS long enough to find a solution. I’m very fortunate to discover this user group, too. As I looked through the archive for the last two years I found lots of interesting and helpful messages.

One additional and brief question: in attempting to debug the script I’m curious regarding any software suggestions you might have for that task. Of course, experience & knowledge play a crucial role but any debugging software might be helpful. Any suggestions?

Thanks again. Your answers uniformly provide the reasons for the errors. Many thanks.

Michael Allen
Industrial Weather
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:27 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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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