GRASS 6.3.svn experimental GNU/Linux binaries

How to install the Linux (x86/Intel) binary code for GRASS 6.3.svn EXPERIMENTAL in gzipped tar format.

Note: the x86_64 binaries will only run on 64bit CPUs (use 'uname -m' to find out about your computer).

You can install and use GRASS 6 in parallel to GRASS 5.x.

Installation:

get the file
grass-6.3.svn-ARCH-DD_MM_YYYY.tar.gz
get the installation script
grass-6.3.svn-ARCH-DD_MM_YYYY-install.sh

where

ARCH is the architecture of the platform (e.g. i686-pc-linux-gnu)
DD-MM-YYYY is the date of the release (e.g. 21_06_2006)

For installation, run the install script with --help option:

sh grass-6.3.svn-ARCH-DD_MM_YYYY-install.sh --help
./grass-6.3.svn-ARCH-DD_MM_YYYY-install.sh --help

Or without help, directly:

sh grass-6.3.svn-ARCH-DD_MM_YYYY-install.sh grass63-DD-MM-YYYY-arch-bin.tar.gz
./grass-6.3.svn-ARCH-DD_MM_YYYY-install.sh grass63-DD-MM-YYYY-arch-bin.tar.gz

Libraries

The following libraries and programs are required:

libpq (e.g. libpq3 or libpq4)
libproj (e.g. proj for Debian, libproj for Mandriva)
libgdal (e.g. libgdal1 for Debian, libgdal for Mandriva)
xterm

and, recommended, also:

tcl (e.g.tcl8.3 or tcl8.4)
tk (e.g. tk8.3 or tk8.4)
gdal tools
libfftw (fftw2, fftw3 or libfftw2, libfftw3)

NOTE:

In some distributions (e.g. Debian, Mandriva) the names of libraries are slightly different. Check, and if there is no file of the name:
libtk.so.0
libtcl.so.0
libpq.so.2
libgdal.so.1
libdfftw.so.2

then you should type:

su
ln -s /usr/lib/libtk.so /usr/lib/libtk.so.0
ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl.so /usr/lib/libtcl.so.0
ln -s /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 /usr/lib/libpq.so.2
ln -s /usr/lib/libgdal.1.1.so /usr/lib/libgdal.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libfftw.so.2 /usr/lib/libdfftw.so.2
ldconfig

As a first argument, you should put the names of the libraries you have in your distribution.
Instead of (or in addition to) libtk.so and libtcl.so, you might have libtk8.3.so and libtcl8.3.so (or libtk8.4.so and libtcl8.4.so). In this case, type instead:

ln -s /usr/lib/libtk8.3.so /usr/lib/libtk.so.0
ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so /usr/lib/libtcl.so.0
ldconfig

How to uninstall

sh /usr/local/bin/grass63uninstall.sh
If it's not there, then:
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/grass63
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/grass63-DD-MM-YYYY
rm -rf /usr/local/grass63-DD-MM-YYYY

This snapshot was configured as follows:

CFLAGS="-O2" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \
  --with-libs=/usr/local/lib \
  --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql --with-postgres-lib=/usr/lib \
  --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
  --with-fftw \
  --with-proj \
  --with-sqlite \
  --with-cxx \
  --with-motif \
  --with-motif-includes=/usr/X11R6/LessTif/Motif1.2/include \
  --with-motif-libs=/usr/X11R6/LessTif/Motif1.2/lib \
  --with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
  --with-glw \
  --with-nls

Get this file.

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