On Sat, November 10, 2007 07:33, Michael Barton wrote: > Moritz, > > At least some of this was solved this afternoon by my very enterprising > RA. > It turns out that Javi was following the installation directions too > closely. > > He simply opened the zip file (in WinZip I think), and dragged the grass > folder onto his C: drive. > > This won't produce a complete working GRASS (though very confusing, it > will > produce an ALMOST working GRASS). > > Isaac, had Javi reinstall by expanding EVERYTHING in the zip file into C:. > Apparently, there are some hidden files that also need to get onto the C: > drive, and that don't get there by just dragging the grass folder from zip > file. > > Ultimately, the most reliable thing, I guess, would be to create a > self-extracting archive (*.exe). But maybe you understand what when wrong > (I > still don't know what is missing with the other installation method).
I don't either. I tried both and the size of the two directories is exactly the same. And I don't see the error. Can Javie reproduce the problems by reinstalling via dragging from the zip ? Or maybe it was just something that went wrong during the install... > Still haven't tested everything, but the file selection and some other > things work now (as of 3pm when I had to leave the lab). Hope to find out > if > v.in.db works too. Ok, keep me posted. If it still causes problems, let me know (and send me a sample dbf file to test). The dbf bug mentioned earlier seems to be solved and will be in a new binary which I hope to put on the site today or tomorrow. Thanks, Moritz _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
