Hi Sylvain, thanks it must be too late at night... I'd had a quick look at that site before but missed the "attention dummy, this will work for you" I was hoping to see in relation to two installs ;-)
-Mind you, after getting a coupla good tips for this, one suggested I need not bother with 2 versions if merely going from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2RC... just upgrade. But maybe it's time I lived on the edge and had a 7.x to tinker with as well... :-) -shane. On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 15:40 +0200, Sylvain Maillard wrote: > Hi, > > in fact it's pretty easy to have multiple grass install on your > computer: you just need to follow the instructions on > http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Ubuntu, and use the > --prefix=/opt/grass64 (or whatever you want) > > on my gentoo box, i have a regular grass-6.4.1, and a compiled > 6.4-svn, grass-6.5, and grass-7 without any trouble! > > > > cheers, > Sylvain > > > 2011/10/13 Shane Litherland <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a > 'try-if-you-dare' GRASS > on the one computer... a quick web search on how to do > multiple grass > installs gave me more info on laying turf than on computing > though! > > The GRASS wiki has good info on compiling from source, but > didn't see > anything clear about how to set up a testing GRASS without it > interfering with my existing, functional one. > > Any tips on where/what to read to get this right? am on ubuntu > 10.04, > working with GRASS 6.4.1, want to try the 6.4.2RC to check if > a few > glitches I am aware of have been sorted out. > > I probably read info about this months/years ago but need to > update > myself before I blunder on into compiling from source-code! > > Regards, > Shane. > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
