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This page shows how to use {{wikipedia|Vagrant_(software)|Vagrant}} together with GRASS GIS. The GRASS source code contains customized {{src|Vagrantfile}}. This highly simplifies the vagrant usage.

Dependencies:

 # Debian/Ubuntu
 apt-get install vagrant virtualbox
 
 # Fedora
 dnf install vagrant libvirt VirtualBox

''Note:'' '$' shows commands to be entered from local machine, '#' from vagrant's virtual machine

First of all we download GRASS source code from SVN:

 $ svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk_vagrant
 $ cd grass_trunk_vagrant

We start new vagrant instance by:

 $ vagrant up

The command creates new vagrant virtual machines, downloads all dependencies, and compiles GRASS on this machine. You can connect to this machine by:

 $ vagrant ssh

Enjoy! 

== Usage ==

Note: it's good idea to store ssh configuration for virtual machine to the file which we can use for scp and other similar commands:

  $ vagrant ssh-config > ssh-config

1) First, we need to get our GRASS data to the virtual machine, there are several options:

:1a) link your grassdata from local to virtual machine:

:Uncomment lines below in the Vagrantfile and define 'grassdata_dir' pointing to your GRASS data directory on local machine:

    grassdata_dir = "/opt/grassdata"                                                                                                                                                          
    host.vm.synced_folder grassdata_dir, "/home/vagrant/grassdata"  

:Then reload your virtual machine to reflect the synced GRASS data directory:

  $ vagrant reload

:1b) copy your grassdata from local to virtual machine:

  $ scp -r -F ssh-config /opt/grassdata grass-gis-vagrant:

:1c) download on virtual machine sample grassdata from Internet:

 $ vagrant ssh
 # mkdir grassdata 
 # wget https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_spm_08_grass7.tar.gz
 # tar xzf nc_spm_08_grass7.tar.gz

2) start GRASS from virtual machine

 $ vagrant ssh
 # grass71

3) To halt running virtual machine type:

 $ vagrant halt

== How to update GRASS installation ==

First of all, update GRASS source code from SVN:

 $ svn up

To update your GRASS installation in vagrant (make && make install):

 $ vagrant provision

If you want to re-compile GRASS from scratch (make distclean && configure && make && make install) you need to destroy your virtual machine and create new one:

 $ vagrant destroy -f && vagrant up

== Notes ==

* You can specify different image before creating a new virtual machine in Vagrantfile (default is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit):

 config.vm.box_url = "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box"