[GRASS-user] Umm...OK, How do I start this thing?

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, mdwxman via grass-user wrote:

> I must be either blind or brain-frozen by all the snow outside but even
> after reading through the introductions and downloading the North Carolina
> data I still don't see how to start GRASS GIS 7.8.5 on my Fedora 33. I
> have over 30 years experience with Unix or Linux and I still don't see a
> startup file. What am I missing?

Michael,

You need to invoke the executable binary. On Slackware it's in
/usr/local/bin/.

If you're using a virtual desktop (Gnome, KDE, Xfce4, whatever) you can
point an icon or menu item to that file and access it that way rather than
from a virtual terminal.

Stay well,

Rich