On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Michael Margolis wrote:
My OS version is 10.5.7. I don't know how to tell for sure if I got
the
right build, but I think so. I followed the link entitled MacOSX from
http://grass.itc.it/download/index.php, and after installing some
frameworks
went on to http://www.kyngchaos.com/software:grass/. I recall going
over to
the Apple site to find out whether I was Leopard or Tiger, so I
probably got
that right.
10.5.7 is Leopard. The readmes with the GRASS installers say 10.5
(Leopard) and 10.4 (Tiger), so you should be able to figure it out
(though Mac users tend to not read readmes ;)
Just today I installed a new Python 2.6.2, which seemed to make no
difference.
I don't know about the compatibility of the GUI with 2.6, one of the
GUI developers could better answer that. But the wxpython that it
uses has binary components that are compiled for a specific version of
Python and may not work as expected for another version. The wxPython
that I bundle expects Python 2.5.x. wx is usually in the python path
of the python it's good for, but my bundled wx will be seen by any
python.
Normally GRASS will use the first Python it finds in your shell PATH,
which will now be 2.6.2. you can override this by setting
GRASS_PYTHON in your shell, and to make this work with the OSX app
startup, it needs to be set in your ~/.bash_profile:
export GRASS_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
I should add this to my binaries since they expect a 2.5 version and
many users might have installed 2.6 or even 3.0.
Hmmm, what OSX version? Did you install the GRASS build matching
your
system version? Which GRASS installer version (ie: is it the latest
rc4-1)? If OSX Leopard (10.5), did you install Python (it's OK not
to, since the system Python is reasonably recent).
I have seen problems getting the GUI to start automatically vs
starting it manually with g.gui, though the wxpython GUI seems to
work
now on startup.
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William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
http://www.kyngchaos.com/
"I ache, therefore I am. Or in my case - I am, therefore I ache."
- Marvin
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