GRASS 6.3 for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10
October 31, 2008 – 1:36 pmPackages of current stable release of GRASS GIS are from now available in Les-ejk’s Ubuntu repository.
There is one (known to me) issue with the new wxPython-based gui. However, you can use the old Tcl/Tk GUI without problems.
Please let me know, in case, you find any bug.
Happy #ging!
18 Responses to “GRASS 6.3 for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10”
Hi Jachym!
Are you planning to add also 64bit packages like the old releases?
Thank you very much
Luca
By Luca on Nov 8, 2008
Hi Jachym,
any plan to add 64bit packages?
Bye and thanks for your great work!
Luca
By luca on Nov 8, 2008
Sorry, not yet :-( If you make the packages, I can put them to the repository.
By jachym on Nov 9, 2008
Hey Jachym,
I’m having trouble installing this with Intrepid, 32
Unpacking grass (from …/grass_6.3.0-1_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up grass (6.3.0-1) …
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/lib/libgdi.so’: File exists
dpkg: error processing grass (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
grass
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
By Tim on Nov 17, 2008
Re: my previous post. Whilst it seems to install Grass 3 fine, and it seems to be working smoothly, any time Ubuntu does an upgrade, it chucks out this same error.
By Tim on Nov 17, 2008
Hi,
this is strange. Could you post, what does
ls -lh /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so
tell to you?
Anyway, if you run
apt-get -f install
everything should be fixed – grass will be probably removed.
Then try to reinstall GRASS
By jachym on Nov 18, 2008
Hi Jachym,
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 2008-07-26 18:11 /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so -> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_gdi_.so
sudo apt-get -f install
gives the same error
I have force uninstalled Grass and then re installed it, but same error.
By Tim on Nov 18, 2008
OK, brutalforce-quickfix:
sudo unlink /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so
apt-get install –reinstall grass
would it help?
By jachym on Nov 18, 2008
Yep, this worked, installed the newer deb from the repos. grass_6.3.0-lesejk2_i386.deb
Many thanks!!
By Tim on Nov 18, 2008
Hello,
I am using Intrepid, and trying to install GRASS 6.3. I try to get the public key using your instructions:
sudo wget -q http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub -O – | sudo apt-key add -
And get the following error:
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
I am a relative linux newbie, so any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Corey Sparks
By Corey on Nov 21, 2008
Hi, Since I’m debian-packager newbie as well, this seems not to be the right aproach. I’ll find out, how it should work in the future.
Sorry
By jachym on Nov 21, 2008
Hi,
Jachym, as writed by Corey, your public pgp key is not available on server (err 404).
version grass_6.3.0-lesejk2_i386 run all ok on kubuntu intrepid.
Great job. Thanks.
Syl
By syltao on Nov 22, 2008
Oh, guys, I’m idiot. Sorry. It disappeared from the server somehow and I did not noticed. Anyway, the key is now located at http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp I hope, it will work now.
By jachym on Nov 22, 2008
Hi all, I have found the above posts helpful when trying to install grass6.3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 . However, I seem to have two additional problems 1) part ofthe GRASS gui seems to freeze whenever I start grass and I cannot get rid of it in any way 2) in one above posts somebody stated that GRASS should work even there is a problem with the GUI. Well, I get an error message whenever I try to use v.in.ogr. The message says “segmentation fault”. Am I am doing something wrong? I have tried to reinstall GRASS several times, but I do not know what I am doing wrong!
thanks in advance for your help!
Marco
By Marco Girardello on Jan 3, 2009
Hi,
1) is it the tcl/tk gui or new wxGui ? did you try to start grass as ‘grass63 -text’ ?
2) the gdal package in ubuntu 8.10 seems to be broken, I did not find any fix for it yet (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdal/+bug/271670 for details)
By admin on Jan 5, 2009
Thanks for the suggestions! I have solved problem 1) but I still cannot work how to solve problem 2). Any way around it?
Marco
By Marco Girardello on Jan 8, 2009
Hi,
1) Well, I can start grass on -text but when I start the gui the same problem occurs (a part of the initial banner freezes). I can work with the text only, but sometimes it is confortable to have the gui as well. Is there a solution for this already?
Thanks for your help
miguel
By miguel on Jan 15, 2009
Hi, which gui? The wx-python one or the Tcl/Tk one? Does it really write nothing in the terminal, when you atempt to start the gui? No error message?
By admin on Jan 15, 2009