Thanks for the replies! I've tried it out and here are my responses to the suggestions:
@ Markus - Downloaded the script and put it in my scripts folder, made it executable and made it assigned rights to myself. Just as a test I tried opening it as a GUI and, lo and behold, it worked. However, it couldn't find my add-on path, of course, when I tried to add r.area. So I went to the terminal and entered: export GRASS_ADDON_PATH?$GISBASE g.extension r.area Now things looked good. It did the following: Fetching <r.area> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)... A r.area/main.c A r.area/description.html A r.area/Makefile Checked out revision 42910. - Great, got the files needed. Then it started compiling: Compiling <r.area>... mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include/grass mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/etc mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/driver mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/driver/db mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/fonts test -d OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu || mkdir -p OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -O2 -DPACKAGE=\""grassmods"\" -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -o OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu/main.o -c main.c main.c:19:23: fatal error: grass/gis.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu/main.o] Error 1 ERROR: Compilation failed, sorry. Please check above error messages. - So it looks like it was able to make a bunch of directories. I checked, they're there, new as of today. The entire directory of /usr/src/packages/ is new. However, GRASS wasn't able to compile. I checked for /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include/grass/gis.h since it seemed that it was looking for it and couldn't find it, and discovered that the directory /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include/grass/ is completely empty. Could that be the problem? I also tried using sudo g.extension r.area And got the usual error that I have to be in GRASS GIS to run the program. I didn't try starting GRASS as a super user because I don't want to do anything wrong and I also don't want it to install r.area only for super users. But that would be a nice way of loading add-ons, because it looks like I wouldn't have to have the source code all on my hard drive. Any idea why it's not working? @ Micha - Tried running it with g.extension (see above); it didn't work, so I tried to do the thing manually again. Entered svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/ grass-addons to get the source codes. It worked and all the source codes were downloaded to my home directory in the folder grass-addons. Then I navigated into the directory ~/grass-addons/raster/r.area/ and entered the command ./configure This is similar to last time; last time, I also had been inside the directory when I tried the commands. But I thought hey, maybe I'd copied the source codes wrong. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the problem; just like last time, I got the message bash: ./configure: No such file or directory I then tried it as super user. Same problem. Any other ideas? Thanks a lot again for the help, everyone! Daniel -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Installing-r-area-tp5340139p5341684.html Sent from the Grass - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
