Thank you for your input. Yes, I misspoke: I should have said that I was looking for relatively bug-free version of GRASS for Linux. I must also mention that the version of Linux installed on computers is beyond my control since it is a lab maintained by others.
The version the computers are running is Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit ( https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html ). The "archaic" looking GRASS 6.4 came from ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable ): they reached this link from the following address ( http://grass.fbk.eu/download/software.php#g64x ). I realize that this is a mirror site in Europe and I think that this last link has some problematic versions of GRASS. I had Windows version (6.4) installed from this address for my class last semester and there were a lot of problems with mapcalc, gregion, and v.in.ogr. I will try finding the link for GRASS 7, which had problems so that it can be fixed. As for Linux GRASS 6.4 issue: I only typed GRASS in Terminal and GUI came up however, I will try what you suggested (grass64 -gui). Meanwhile, can anyone suggest a link for GRASS 6.4 for the version of Ubuntu I have to work with? Thanks, Bulent On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:59 PM, barikan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> As a follow-up on this issue, and as a person who never installed GRASS on >> Linux, I wanted to ask the Forum if there is a version of GRASS 6.x that >> will run on 32-bit system, which has a similar look to the most recent Unix >> interface. > > If you install a Linux distro package, it should come in either 64 or 32 bit > depending on your system. Unfortunately some distros are quite lagging > behind with the packaging. > >> I installed 6.4.2 from the US Tier#2 web site of GRASS (the link >> gave the date of 2009) > > Can you please indicate the link? Anything which should be fixed? > >> but I am sure that the interface looked archaic. > > Probably you did not start with "-gui" parameter and GRASS used > an old (tcl) setting from a previous run of GRASS on that machine. > Try (later it will remember): > > grass64 -gui > >> It is important that the version is free of bugs since it will be used for a >> workshop designed for beginners. I will appreciate your suggestions. > > Say "minimized number of bugs" - bugfree software hardly exists. > GRASS 6.4.2 should be very good for teaching, I used in happily in > a course recently. > >> * I also installed GRASS 7 but there are issues with vector import and basic >> analyses. > > Please indicate which issues you found (otherwise we cannot fix them). > > Markus
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