Acquisition/Installation of GRASS4.13 Binaries

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# A. Acquisition/Installation of GRASS4.13 Binaries

> This appendix describes how to acquire and install Linux binaries for GRASS4.13 (the 3rd update to the last full release of GRASS, version 4.1).

How to get these files:

    ftp moon.cecer.army.mil
    login: anonymous
    password: your email address
    cd pub/grass/grass4.1/release/binaries/linux
    image
    mget grassa*
    bye

    Installation instructions:
    ********************************************************************
    * GRASS 4.1 Update 3 for Linux
    *
    * This package contains GRASS programs only, *NO* GIS
    * data is included.  You can find example GRASS data at
    * moon.cecer.army.mil
    *
    * Compiled by: Andy Burnett - burnett@zorro.cecer.army.mil
    * compiled on: April 7, 1994

    ********************************************************************
    System Requiremnts:

            35 MB disk space to hold the binary distribution

    System library requirements:

            libc4.5.21 or greater

            libX.so.3.1.0 or greater

    If you are running libraries that are older than these, this binary
    distribution will *NOT* run on your linux system.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Files in this release:

            README_4.1.3            what you are currently reading
            ginstall                simple grass installation script
            grassaa --------|
            grassab         |
            grassac         |
            grassad         |
            grassae         |--     the linux GRASS binaries
            grassaf         |
            grassag         |
            grassah         |
            grassai         |
            grassaj         |
            grassak --------|

    INSTALLATION:

            To install this binary distribution of grass for linux, you
    can simply run the ginstall script or you can unpack the files by
    hand.  I recommend using the ginstall script ... it's very simple and
    should be bullet proof.  To run the ginstall script, you will need
    gawk (gnu awk) installed on your system and it needs to be in your
    PATH.

    If, however, you want to do things by hand, here's what you need to
    do:

    o  make the destination directory (/usr/grass, /usr/local/grass,
       whatever)  This will become your GISBASE for grass.

    ********************* LOOK HERE **************************************
    from here on, replace $GISBASE with the name of the directory you just
    created
    ********************* LOOK HERE **************************************

    o  cat grassa? | gzip -d | (cd $GISBASE; tar xvf -)
       This will unpack all the grass binaries into the $GISBASE directory

    o  copy $GISBASE/etc/moncap.sample to $GISBASE/etc/monitorcap and edit
       it.
    o  change all occurrences of GBASE in that file to $GISBASE
    o  copy $GISBASE/etc/grass4.1 into a public directory (I suggest
       /usr/bin)
    o  edit the copy you just made:
       change all occurrences of GBASE to $GISBASE

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