Hi Vaclav, I had made some changes in control script to fix this behaviour some time ago. Could tell which version of Ubuntu you are using and thee ppa. FYI, I had updated only grass-ppa[1] not in the ubuntugis
[1] https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > when installing incomplete GRASS GIS 6.4.3 from packages on Ubuntu I get > the following error when I start using `grass` command: > > Starting GRASS ... > python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py': [Errno > 2] No such file or directory > Received EXIT message from GUI. > GRASS is not started. Bye. > > It is caused by the fact that I have installed grass-core and not > grass-gui, so I have modules and `grass` command but I don't have any GUI. > > Although, packaging is what caused the problem, it seems that it is our > problem since we claim that GRASS is usable without GUI or don't we? > > Once user reads `grass -h` he or she can realize that `grass -text` could > start and it of course starts. The problem is that when grass-gui package > is not available, text interface should start (should be the default or > fallback), but once grass-gui is installed GUI should be the default option. > > Besides the start, modules do not have their GUIs: > > g.region --ui > python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gui_core/forms.py': > [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > This is not so critical error, just a better error message would be > nice. Maybe, the better error message would be enough also at start up. > Something, like "Have you installed GRASS GIS with GUI?" > > I haven't checked the source code but I guess that it is the same for all > versions including trunk. > > Vaclav > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Regards, Rashad
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