[GRASS-user] Installation Issues on CentOS8

mdwxman mdwxman at protonmail.com
Wed Dec 16 09:10:19 PST 2020


I noticed the issues with both the GDAL and PROJ packages. I’ve noticed that it can be difficult and sometimes impossible to find necessary packages on several Fedora repos. It makes things difficult and frustrating to install packages when even Conda can’t find necessary libraries.

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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