Re: [Pkg-grass-general] testing debiangis

[Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org>]

Hi Paolo,

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:06 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> We started testing "our" repository. Here are the first comments:
> - mapserver goes surprisingly smooth
> - 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.

> - 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?

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?

> - in the grass startup sreen, epsg codes should be found 
> in /usr/share/proj/epsg instead of  /usr/local/share/proj/epsg

I'll look into this.

> - I installed grass-doc, but I cannot display the help

Yes. I moved the docs to /usr/share/doc/grass-doc but haven't yet
updated scripts to point to that location.

> - I do not understand how to display grass rasters in qgis (does it also need 
> grass plugin?)

Yes, it needs the grass plugin. But raster display is broken at least
for me. gdalinfo claims that grass rasters are not a recognized format.

Thanks for the report.

Steve