Were you using the default package in Ubuntu or the ones from Ubuntugis PPA?
Alex Horacio Samaniego wrote: > Dear Nathan, > > I discovered that the origin of the problem seem to be that the grass > package in ubuntu is not compiled using 64bit libs and that to my > understanding it's what's giving us problems. I concluded that by the nature > of the error I was getting. So., I kind of went the long way... I repackaged > grass for my architecture using: > > > sudo apt-get source grass # downloads the source tree in current dir > cd grass* > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot # will generate all the -dev -doc packages. > best to use sudo? > sudo dpkg -i ../*grass*deb # will install everything > > Once you've gone through that, you can simply install addons the normel way. > Which is: > > download addon to /usr/lib/grass64/ raster or vector (depending on the type > of addon) and make, make compile > > > that solved the problem and created a real 64bit grass package along the > way. The key seem to be that the installation of the -dev package provides > all the libraries to install new addon. The problem arises when you simply > install grass from the repository which is NOT 64bit!! but nonetheless > functional. > > I hope that this will help! > > I'll post this solution to the wiki if nobody objects my assessment of this > particular issue. So, please, comment on it if you have a deeper > understanding of this than we have... > > Cheers, > > H > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Currit, Nathan Allen > <cur...@txstate.edu>wrote: > >> Hi Horacio, >> >> I saw you question posted on <org.osgeo.lists.grass-user>, but I do not see >> any responses. Did you find a solution to your problem? I have the same >> problem. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nate >> >> *********** >> Nate Currit >> Texas State University - San Marcos >> Department of Geography >> San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616 > > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user