[GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Sylvain Maillard
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
Thanks Paulo, I suspected that was the 'right' way to approach it but was vague on the locations/config. See how I go with it (a weekend project I think). -shane. On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 14:49 +0200, Paulo van Breugel wrote: You can compile your ' working' GRASS in e.g., /usr/local/grass64 and

Re: [GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
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