Hi, I'm a Gentoo user, and don't remember something specific about GRASS installation ...
You can either use the standard install with latest stable ebuild (6.4.2), or follow the standard compilation procedure ( http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure ) On my system, I installed both the official grass gentoo ebuild + 6.4.3_rc3 and 7 from svn. I put them in /opt/grass-xx I join a small script I wrote to get an automated update. You just need to install all dependencies, uncomment the first line for the first launch + to make a new '/opt/grass7' directory ... it's basically just a collection of commands for the standard compilation procedure and is not system dependant ... cheers, Sylvain 2013/7/6 Nikos Alexandris <[email protected]> > Hi! > > I recently had the luck to be able to obtain a new system. I am doing > various > trials (speak OSes) on it to make the switch from K-Ubuntu to something > that > will be more fun to work with. > > I've tried Scientific Linux 6 which I find nice, clean, but I dislike the > old > KDE (4.3). I can't live without KDE's Kontact goodies. Also, myself being > a > specialist in messing up normal running systems, I managed to quickly mix > up > some of the repositories that don't go well along ;-p. I didn't read the > "signs" I guess... > > I am running currently on openSUSE 12.3 which offers a fantastic > installation > experience and appears to me to be very stable, even with latest KDE 4.10. > Indeed, the experience was brought with the least of tweaking actions I > needed > to do so far, among various Linux distros I have tried (K-Ubuntu, Slax, > Fedora > once, Gentoo once, Debian some years ago). I think, anyhow, that zypper > (the > cli package manager) isn't that good as apt-get (yes, apt-get has some > functionalities which make life easy when hunting dependencies for example > -- > me thinks at least). > > The third on the row is Funtoo. I managed to install quickly the base > following the official tutorial, had to fight a bit to install Xorg (since > I > didn't understand quite some stuff), wait hours for KDE to "emerge". Yet, > it > feels it's worth the time spent! It seems that portage is quite an > advanced > tool and offers everything and even more (?) apt-get has to offer. It'll > take > some time I guess till I gain a good understanding of the advantages and > how > to use'm properly. But it feels like once set-up, you never look back. > > Herewith, I kindly ask you to share your experiences on-list. In > particular, > are there Gentoo/Funtoo users out there who regularly build grass_trunk and > the rest? GRASS-Wiki looks "empty" in this direction. > > Also, relates in a way, there is this > <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_workstation_setup_tips> page which > deserves an > update since Technology advances rapidly into new areas. > > Best, Nikos > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >
build_7.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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