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

[mdwxman]

And that's a very good idea!  I just went through the process of creating a link to the GRASS78 file.  Your idea is something I never considered.  I guess too many years of managing Unix and Linux systems with command lines has stopped the creative juices from using the GUIs that were put there for everyone's benefit!

Mike


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On Sunday, December 27, 2020 7:40 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> 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
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