[winGRASS] grass.bat not found

[Huidae Cho]

The following email exchange will help you:

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From: david welch <curlygrape at hotmail.com>                                      
To: grass4u at gmail.com                                                           
Subject: download successful                                                    
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:15:30 +0000                                           

download was successful                                                         
                                                                                
It installed after I deleted the inst_grass folder that was left on my c        
directory.                                                                      
                                                                                
thanks                                                                          
                                                                                
David                                                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
>From: Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com>
>To: david welch <curlygrape at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [winGRASS] trouble installing grass
>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:35 -0500
>On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:56:54PM +0000, david welch wrote:
>>
>> thanks huidae
>> I've placed the inst_grass.bat wget-1.10.2b.zip and unzip.exe in 
>c:\inst_grass
>> and after running the .bat  I get a series of messages like
>> unzip: cannot find either /inst_grass/libiconv-1.9.2-1-bin.zip or
>> /inst_grass/libiconv-1.9.2-1-bin.zip.zip
>>
>> there are about 29 or so lines that come up with various files it cannot 
>find
>>
>> any suggestions?
>>
>There was a bug in inst_grass.bat, which is now fixed. Please download
>inst_grass.bat and retry.  Note that c:\inst_grass is supposed to be
>created by inst_grass.bat, so you have to put inst_grass.bat, wget, and
>unzip in another directory.
>Huidae
>> david
>>
>> >From: Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com>
>> >To: david welch <curlygrape at hotmail.com>
>> >CC: wingrass at grass.itc.it
>> >Subject: Re: [winGRASS] trouble installing grass
>> >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:28:47 -0500
>> >On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:07:40PM +0000, david welch wrote:
>> >> HI,
>> >> I have been attempting to launch grass on my windows machine but have 
>been
>> >> unable to do so.
>> >>
>> >> in one of the last steps of the installation, you are supposed to run a
>> >batch
>> >> file in a directory, along with  unzip-1.exe and  wget-1.10.2b.zip
>> >> I get the message:  '\inst_grass\unzip' is not recognized as an internal 
>or
>> >> external command, operable program or batch file.
>> >>
>> >Where did you get that unzip-1.exe? It should be unzip.exe.  Check if
>> >you have c:\inst_grass\unzip.exe and if not, just try to copy
>> >unzip-1.exe to c:\inst_grass\unzip.exe and run inst_grass.bat again.
>> >Huidae
>> >> thanks
>> >> david
>> >>
>> >>
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>>
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:48:59PM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> Dear win-GRASS users,
> 
> I have to install GRASS for a colleague.... but on windows.
> 
> It is great that the installation for windows is becoming easier, but I still
> run into a few problems (probably because I am used to the Linux way)
> 
> I downloaded all files into c:/grass and installed them as described at
> http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html
> 
> However, when I run inst_grass.bat I get the message:
> 
> /inst_grass/sqlite-3.3.6-1.zip or /inst_grass/sqlite-
> 3.3.6-1.zip.zip.
> unzip:  cannot find either /inst_grass/xdr-4.0-1.zip
> or /inst_grass/xdr-4.0-1.zi
> p.zip.
> unzip:  cannot find either /inst_grass/grass.zip or
> /inst_grass/grass.zip.zip.
> Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
> Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
> GRASS installation completed.
> Run c:\msys\1.0\grass.bat to start the GRASS GIS
> Manager.
> 
> 
> However in c:\msys\1.0\ there is no grass.bat file.
> 
> This problem has been addressed before but I could not find any replies.
> 
> What I do not understand is this part:
> 
> >If you have already installed the first release (2006-09-13), please update
> >grass/gdal-1.3.2-1.zip and grass/sqlite-3.3.6-1.zip too. Download these files
> >along with grass/grass-2006-09-17.zip and uncompress/overwrite old files under
> >C:\msys\1.0\local.
> 
> What shall I do if this is my first windows installation? Just download
> grass-2006-09-17.zip nothing else?


If it's your first install, you should follow the whole steps in the
instruction.

Huidae

> 
> Thanks in advance, Martin
> 
> 
> Martin Wegmann <wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> 
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