[GRASS-web] GRASS Installation in MSWin

[Markus Neteler]

Tony,

the site http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html contains partially outdated information
which we cannot correct.

To easily install winGRASS, please go here:
http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php#g63x
-> MS-Windows (native):
    * Installer

which is
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/native/WinGRASS-6.3.0-Setup.exe

Instructions are here:
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/native/

Good luck!

Markus Neteler

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Tony Hürlimann
<tony.huerlimann at unifr.ch> wrote:
> GRASS seems to be a great software. Unfortunately, I work on Windows XP
> actually. (I am not specially happy with that, but that's the way it is now)
> I just want you give a feedback on my first (unsuccessful) experience on
> installation GRASS as a totally naive user of the Linux world!
>
> Ok. I was instructed to go to the download page
>
> http://grass.itc.it/download/index.php
>
> There I find the link (GRASS 6.3 (Testing) Installer:
>
> http://grass.itc.it/grass63/binary/mswindows/cygwin/
>
> Ok. On the new page I am instructed that I need cygwin, hmm... never seen...
> but ok, what should I do next? Now I am lost, because:
>
> 1) I don't know how to unpack a file like grass-6.3.0-2.cygwin.tar.bz2 (what
> is this format?)
>
> 2) Should I go to the http://www.cygwin.com/ page first to install cygwin? I
> hesitate because I also see a file called gdal-1.5.1-1.cygwin.tar.bz2. Is
> this the cygwin I need? How can I unpack it. I need more information abount
> the *.bz2 file type. Ok: I goole "*.bz2 file type" where I am informed that
> *.bz2 is a popular format. Sorry I didn't know! Hmmm... I have no time to
> search for free program unpacking .... Or ist there a program on my Windows
> that does it? I have no idea. I would be nice to be informed.
>
> 3) Ok. I read on the same page after "Prerequisites"
>
> "For installation of Cygwin, see http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html#toc5. These
> instructions can be used, but at step #3 use
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/cygwin/ (or a local
> mirror) instead of http://geni.ath.cx/grass. Also, in step #5 the version is
> 6.3.0-1 instead of 6.0.cvs-1, and there's no grass.bat script."
>
> Then I click the link "http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html#toc5" where I hope to
> find "The instructions".
> Instead I find a text as follows:
>
> "MS-Windows native binary
> 6.3.CVS September 17, 2006 (Updated!) "
>
> ???I do not understand. GRASS6.3 is a native program now?? and it was
> created already in 2006??? Why on another page it was announced to be the
> last version?
>
> Sorry that is to much for me! I have no time to proceed.....
>
> Tony Hürlimann
>
>
>
>
>
>
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