installing AND running Linux GRASS

[Steve Watts]

Hi,

I have unsuccessfully attempted to install and run the Linux version of
GRASS on a system with RedHat 5 Linux w/ XFree86. The steps I took were:
(1) used gunzip to unzip the file grass421_bin5_tar.gz into /usr/grass; (2)
in usr/grass, tar -xvf grass42bin.tar.z; (3) changed all the default values
for GISBASE in grass4.2 and etc/monitorcap to /usr/grass; (4) mv grass4.2
/usr/local/bin and chmod 755 grass4.2. That is all I have done. The
install instructions (which say they are for Solaris rather than Linux) say
that LD_LIBRARY_PATH should include /usr/openwin/lib. However, openwin
does not exist on my system.

So I have 2 major questions:

(1) Does anybody have step-by-step instructions for installing and
configuring Linux GRASS on a Linux system, as opposed to trying to
interpret Solaris installation instructions?

(2) How do you actually RUN GRASS? One of the major gripes I have with
Linux/Unix instruction manuals is that they explain how to install,
configure, and conduct specific operations, but I have never seen a manual
that explains how you actually run a program. Often it's obvious, but in
the case of GRASS, I am unsure. Do I type grass, grass4.1, xgrass, ...?

Thanks,

-Steve

[Steve Watts]

At 11:51 PM 4/25/98 +0300, Kari Salovaara wrote:
>
>I have been running Grass in Linux system 2-3 years aöready and I haven't got
>any problems running it. Those instructions from pages
>
>snip<
>
>work very well both for source code and compiled versions.
>Of course You have to read this information. ;-)
>

Kari,

Thankyou for your response. Unfortunately, I have already spent a number
of hours looking at the web sites you have listed, and as fas as I can
tell, they don't say to do anything differently than I have already done
when installing GRASS on Linux. Obviously, I am doing something wrong, and
somebody with a good UNIX/Linux background would probably laugh at whatever
it is I'm doing wrong. But, following what I understand to be the
instructions on the web sites is not working for me.

Regards,

-Steve

[Roger CHENEVEY]

Hi Steve,

> I have unsuccessfully attempted to install and run the Linux version of
> GRASS on a system with RedHat 5 Linux w/ XFree86.

I have your same system. I downloaded the source files GRASS421 v13 (Marcus
Neteler's), added the libcurses, compiled it and GRASS is running without anu
problem. Try to do the same, if it fails, contact me and I could send you my
binaries.

> (2) How do you actually RUN GRASS? One of the major gripes I have with
> Linux/Unix instruction manuals is that they explain how to install,
> configure, and conduct specific operations, but I have never seen a manual
> that explains how you actually run a program. Often it's obvious, but in
> the case of GRASS, I am unsure. Do I type grass, grass4.1, xgrass, ...?

grass4.2.1 will do

regards

Roger

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ned!