Great!! So many thanks Hamish and Helmut for your quick and kind reply. I will give her these instructions to fix and solve this behaviour.
Thanks again, guys. Cheers, Lluís El dt 29 de 11 de 2011 a les 03:01 -0800, en/na Hamish va escriure: > Lluís wrote: > > I have a student of an on-line course that wants to use > > WinGRASS6.4.2RC2 on Windows XP but she can't start the program. > > She has installed grass6.4.2rc2 under a Windows XP OS and the > > installation process seems to be ok («she gets the message > > Completed»). Now, she has two icons in her desktop (GRASS6.4.2RC2 > > & GRASS6.4.2RC2 with MSYS) but when she does a double clic over > > any of them, nothing happens. There is no error message but > > nothing is displayed. GRASS doesn't starts... > > > Hi, > > this is a known problem, fortunately with a known solution: > http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#XP.2F2000 > > She will need to download and install two missing files from > Microsoft: (in order) > > * Microsoft's Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable (v2) > http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=25 > > * Microsoft's .net framework 3.5 downloader > http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21 > > > Many other software supply these, so usually it only happens > on a brand new (or kept very clean) computer. > > > If anyone has suggestions on how to make the grass installer > test for those, or how to make the error pop up a useful message > explaining what to do, please contribute :-) > > > Hamish
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