Hi, I'm not really experienced in that but since there is no other answer, I'll try to answer anyway
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm on Debian Jessie (stable), have not used GIS software before and > want to learn GRASS so it makes sense to me to start with GRASS7 > rather than 6.4 (which is available in Debian). > > I tried without success the instructions to install GRASS7 from > experimental here: > https://wiki.debian.or <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental> > > IMO the most important advantage of LaTeX over Word is missing here. You > might have forgotten it in your academic career but it's what matters the > most to me. LaTeX makes you invest the time to get the layout right > upfront. Word forces you to fix the layout in your last step. > > > g/DebianExperimental <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental> > > I added this to sources.list: > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib > > Then: > apt-get update > apt-get -t experimental install grass-core grass-gui > > First it failed, Failed with what message? > so I installed grass from stable and now I can run this: > $ grass --version > GRASS GIS 6.4.4 > cat: /usr/lib/grass64/etc/license: No such file or directory > > I suggest uninstalling all grass packages and starting over. > So firstly, can someone tell me what that last line of output is (it > looks very odd to coming out of a Debian package)? > > Now when I try: > apt-get -t experimental install grass-core grass-gui > I get the following output: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > grass-core is already the newest version. > grass-gui is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. > > Can anyone help here - I'd really like to start on GRASS7, if possible > (on Debian stable - would that normally be a "backport" or an > "update"?). > >From 6 to 7 is update. I don't think that that current Debian version will switch from 6 to 7 if this is what you are asking. If installation from packages does not work, you can always compile it. It should be relatively simple: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#GRASS_7_on_Debian_Jessie > Thanks heaps, > Zenaan > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >
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