Re: [Pkg-grass-general] testing debiangis
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:45 +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > > - qgis gives an error when we try to activate the grass plugin (see
> > > www.faunalia.com/screen1.png)
> >
> > GISBASE needs to be set so the plugin knows where to look for your
> > grass data. I've added this to ~/.bashrc:
> >
> > export GISBASE=/home/steve/grass60
> >
> > The error message seems pretty descriptive to me. But do you think it
> > would be helpful to include this sort of example as well?
> >
> > Or do you already have GISBASE set and it's still giving the error? I
> > found that for some reason grass6 didn't like my grass57 database. I'm
> > not sure yet if that is expected behavior, but I had to start fresh in
> > a new directory.
>
>
> That is $GISBASE --not-- $GISDBASE !
Right you are! I've had this mixed up from the start. But it doesn't
seem to matter as long as it's set to something. The qgis plugin works
fine for me with GISBASE=/dev/null even.
Steve
> $GISBASE is where the GRASS program files live. i.e. where you can find
> these files:
> (e.g., uninstalled, /usr/local/src/grass57/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> COPYING bin/ docs/ fonts/ lib/
> README bwidget/ driver/ grass57.tmp* man/
> REQUIREMENTS.html demolocation/ etc/ include/ scripts/
>
>
>
> $GISDBASE is where your GRASS database lives on the disk (typically
> ~/grassdata or something)
>
>
> confusing.. historical reasons etc.
>
>
>
> > > - grass depends on xterm, but the package does not require this
> > > dependency
> >
> > I don't think this is true. I can run grass on the command line
> > without even running X. Maybe I should switch all the X-related
> > depends to suggests?
>
> no, xterm is needed. (see previous email)
>
>
> > I also wonder if the dependency on csh is really required. I've
> > removed it from my system and haven't noticed any ill effects. bash is
> > an Essential package that is guaranteed to be installed. Is bash not
> > sufficient?
>
> no, csh is not required (see previous email). People use GRASS on Macs,
> Solaris, IRIX, etc where bash is not always the default so the code is
> mostly not bash dependent. Where it does include bashisms it's a bug.
> Only requirement there is "one of the traditional shells".
>
>
>
>
> Hamish
>
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