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Installing GRASS

Mon, 11 Jun 2007

In fact installing GRASS isn't that difficult, but for those not having used Linux before it is, on the one hand, intuitive and much better than Windows, whilst on the other, if you don't know how to do it, it won't work! So in short (and thanks are due to Carlos for the pointers):

1. Go to "System" and "Synaptic package manager"
2. Go to Settings -> Repositories.
3. Enable all the repositories (universe, multiverse, restricted etc)
4. In the "Third-party software" tab, add a new repository using this line:

deb http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu feisty multiverse

5. Reload the packages list and search for "grass". Double-click on its name, the package manager will ask if you want to install also the dependencies (yes!).
6. Its worth installing Quantum GIS (aka QGIS), part of the OSGeo stable, as it's a great data browser/editor with some analysis functionality. It can also be used as a front-end to GRASS (install "qgis" and the "qgis-grass-plugin").

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