Compile and Install Ubuntu

Quick instructions

These instructions should work fine on Ubuntu distributions:

Install geospatial dependencies

1. Install some dependencies (PROJ, GEOS, GDAL libraries) and the compiler tools
(note: you need Python 3!)

# be sure to have an updated system
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

# install PROJ
sudo apt install libproj-dev proj-data proj-bin unzip -y

# optionally, install (selected) datum grid files
sudo apt-get install proj-data

# install GEOS
sudo apt install libgeos-dev -y

# install GDAL
sudo apt install libgdal-dev python3-gdal gdal-bin -y

# install PDAL (optional)
sudo apt install libpdal-dev pdal libpdal-plugin-python -y

# recommended to give Python3 precedence over Python2 (which is end-of-life since 2019)
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 1

Install compiler stuff and further dependencies. Note: this is a single command, please copy-paste it entirely into the terminal:

Install further compilation dependencies (Ubuntu 19.04)

For Ubuntu 19.04

sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
  flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ ccache \
  python3 python3-dev \
  python3-opengl \
  python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk3.0 python3-wxgtk4.0 \
  python3-dateutil libgsl-dev python3-numpy \
  wx3.0-headers wx-common libwxgtk3.0-dev \
  libwxbase3.0-dev   \
  libncurses5-dev \
  libbz2-dev \
  zlib1g-dev gettext \
  libtiff5-dev libpnglite-dev \
  libcairo2 libcairo2-dev \
  sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
  libpq-dev \
  libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev \
  libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
  libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev liblas-c-dev \
  subversion libzstd-dev \
  checkinstall \
  libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
  ghostscript wget -y

This are optional video codec libraries for NVIZ video output for Ubuntu 19.04:

sudo apt-get install \
  libav-tools libavutil-dev ffmpeg2theora \
  libffmpegthumbnailer-dev \
  libavcodec-dev \
  libxmu-dev \
  libavformat-dev libswscale-dev

Install further compilation dependencies (Ubuntu 20.04)

For Ubuntu 20.04:

 sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
  flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ ccache \
  python3 python3-dev \
  python3-opengl python3-wxgtk4.0 \
  python3-dateutil libgsl-dev python3-numpy \
  wx3.0-headers wx-common libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev \
  libwxbase3.0-dev   \
  libncurses5-dev \
  libbz2-dev \
  zlib1g-dev gettext \
  libtiff5-dev libpnglite-dev \
  libcairo2 libcairo2-dev \
  sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
  libpq-dev \
  libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev \
  libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
  libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev  libpdal-dev\
  subversion libzstd-dev \
  checkinstall \
  libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
  ghostscript wget -y

For NVIZ on Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt-get install \
  ffmpeg libavutil-dev ffmpeg2theora \
  libffmpegthumbnailer-dev \
  libavcodec-dev \
  libxmu-dev \
  libavformat-dev libswscale-dev

Install further compilation dependencies (Ubuntu 22.04)

For Ubuntu 22.04:

 sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
  flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ ccache \
  python3 python3-dev \
  python3-opengl python3-wxgtk4.0 \
  python3-dateutil libgsl-dev python3-numpy \
  wx3.0-headers wx-common libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev \
  libwxbase3.0-dev   \
  libncurses5-dev \
  libbz2-dev \
  zlib1g-dev gettext \
  libtiff5-dev libpnglite-dev \
  libcairo2 libcairo2-dev \
  sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
  libpdal-dev libpq-dev \
  libreadline-dev libfreetype6-dev \
  libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
  libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev \
  subversion libzstd-dev \
  checkinstall \
  libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
  ghostscript wget -y

For NVIZ on Ubuntu 22.04:

sudo apt-get install \
  ffmpeg libavutil-dev ffmpeg2theora \
  libffmpegthumbnailer-dev \
  libavcodec-dev \
  libxmu-dev \
  libavformat-dev libswscale-dev

Update wxpython:

pip3 install -U -f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-22.04 wxPython

Source code download

Now we have all "ingredients" readily installed on our system.

Source code download:

There a two ways of getting the source code: either use a) the weekly snapshot (cannot be updated, or b) the source code from the GitHub repository (you can update your local copy easily in future):

a) Download of the weekly source code snapshot (not recommended):

# download latest GRASS GIS 8.x stable release source code:
mkdir $HOME/src/
cd  $HOME/src/
wget https://grass.osgeo.org/grass82/source/snapshot/grass-8.2.git_src_snapshot_latest.tar.gz

# Unpack source code package and remove tarball archive:
tar xvfz grass-8.2.git_src_snapshot_latest.tar.gz
rm -f grass-8.2.git_src_snapshot_latest.tar.gz 

# rename source code directory (yes, with the questionmarks!)
mv grass-8.2.git_src_snapshot_20??_??_?? grass-8.2.latest
cd grass-8.2.latest/

b) Download of the current development version from GitHub (adopt the path below accordingly)

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/grass.git grass-8.2.latest.git
cd grass-8.2.latest.git/
git checkout releasebranch_8_2

Compilation

Now we can compile the source code in order to generate the GRASS GIS binaries:

For Ubuntu 19.04

# "configure" source code for local machine (checks for CPU type etc):
MYCFLAGS='-O2 -fPIC -fno-common -fexceptions -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -m64'
#MYCXXFLAGS=''
MYLDFLAGS='-Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-z,now'

LDFLAGS="$MYLDFLAGS" CFLAGS="$MYCFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$MYCXXFLAGS" ./configure \
  --with-cxx \
  --enable-largefile \
  --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
  --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-python \
  --with-geos \
  --with-sqlite \
  --with-nls \
  --with-zstd \
  --with-liblas \
  --with-pdal \
  --with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
  --with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
  --with-wxwidgets \
  --with-fftw \
  --with-motif \
  --with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
  --with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
  --without-netcdf \
  --without-mysql \
  --without-odbc \
  --without-openmp \
  --without-ffmpeg

Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 (without liblas but with PDAL):

# "configure" source code for local machine (checks for CPU type etc):
MYCFLAGS='-O2 -fPIC -fno-common -fexceptions -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -m64'
#MYCXXFLAGS=''
MYLDFLAGS='-Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-z,now'

LDFLAGS="$MYLDFLAGS" CFLAGS="$MYCFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$MYCXXFLAGS" ./configure \
  --with-cxx \
  --enable-largefile \
  --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
  --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-geos \
  --with-sqlite \
  --with-nls \
  --with-zstd \
  --with-pdal \
  --with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
  --with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
  --with-fftw \
  --with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
  --with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
  --without-netcdf \
  --without-mysql \
  --without-odbc \
  --without-openmp

Now compile the source code (this will take some time as it generates binary code from the source code):

# note: the more CPUs you have, the higher the -j number may be set to
# here: build using 4 CPU cores
make -j4

Installation

Install resulting GRASS GIS binaries into /usr/local/:

sudo make install

Start GRASS GIS in the terminal:

grass

Done & enjoy!

Hints

• Usually, the installation of compiled code is done by using the make tool. Alternatively, this can be done by using the checkinstall tool (i.e., sudo checkinstall instead of sudo make install) which eases off removal of packages. If checkinstall fails to deliver, please note some related bugs: 78455 and 599163. Useful information on using checkinstall: Compiling things on Ubuntu the Easy Way.

• In multi-core processors, the compilation performance can be boosted by using -j switches (e.g. make -j2 or make -j3 or even make -j4) which specify the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously.

Pre-compiled packages and backports

Pre-compiled packages and backports are available from UbuntuGIS via their ppa.launchpad stable and ppa.launchpad unstable repositories. This is by far the simplest and fastest solution. Please prefer it over the manual way of compiling source code yourself as described below.

Version overview:

• jammy (22.04): 8.2
• focal (20.04 LTS): 8.2
• bionic (18.04 LTS): 7.8
• xenial (16.04 LTS): 7.6
• trusty (14.04 LTS): 7.4

a) Daily ready-to-install GRASS GIS builds of the 7.x release branch and master are available from ppa:grass/grass-devel:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:grass/grass-devel

b) Latest stable version of GRASS 7.x is available from ppa:grass/grass-stable:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:grass/grass-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grass78

Dependencies

Current stable Ubuntu version

First, update the system from the repositories

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Then, install SQLite, SVN and dependencies for compiling PROJ, GEOS, GDAL/OGR, GRASS, GDAL-GRASS-PLUGIN (some additional packages may be required in this case); the following action will also install various dependencies (listed in the command line as The following extra packages will be installed:...):

The following dependencies concern Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS)

# this is a single command, please copy-paste it entirely into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
  flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ cmake ccache \
  python python-dev \
  python-opengl \
  python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk3.0 \
  python-dateutil libgsl-dev python-numpy \
  wx3.0-headers wx-common libwxgtk3.0-dev \
  libwxbase3.0-dev   \
  libncurses5-dev \
  zlib1g-dev gettext \
  libtiff5-dev libpnglite-dev \
  libcairo2 libcairo2-dev \
  sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
  libpq-dev \
  libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev \
  libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
  libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev liblas-c-dev \
  resolvconf \
  libjasper-dev \
  subversion \
  libav-tools libavutil-dev ffmpeg2theora \
  libffmpegthumbnailer-dev \
  libavcodec-dev \
  libxmu-dev \
  libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
  checkinstall \
  libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
  ghostscript

The following dependencies concern Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS)

# this is a single command, please copy-paste it entirely into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
  flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ \
  python python-dev \
  python-dateutil libgsl0-dev python-numpy \
  zlib1g-dev gettext \
  libtiff-dev libpnglite-dev \
  sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
  libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev liblas-c-dev \
  resolvconf \
  subversion \
  checkinstall \
  cmake ccache \
  python-opengl \
  python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 \
  wx2.8-headers wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dbg \
  libwxbase2.8-dev  libwxbase2.8-dbg \
  libncurses5-dev \
  libcairo2 libcairo2-dev \
  libpq-dev \
  libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev \
  libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
  libjasper-dev \
  libav-tools libavutil-dev ffmpeg2theora \
  libffmpegthumbnailer-dev \
  libavcodec-dev \
  libxmu-dev \
  libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
  libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
  ghostscript

• See the additional packages bellow and in other sections and install them. Note that some of them are required, namely PROJ.4, GEOS and GDAL. If you don't have special requirements, it is usually enough just to install PROJ.4, GEOS and GDAL from repository (rather then compile them manually).

• for mysql support, libmysqlclient-dev is required

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

• for netcdf support, netcdf-bin and libnetcdf-dev is required

sudo apt-get install netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev

• for i.spec.unmix Addon support, install LAPACK and BLAS:

sudo apt-get install libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev

• create a directory as a simple user where all source code is going to be stored -- in this example, a directory named src under /usr/local is created

  sudo mkdir /usr/local/src
  

• take over directories ownerships (replace below the terms userid and groupid with a real userid):

  sudo chown userid:groupid /usr/local/src
  

• similarly, grant rwx (read-write-execute) permissions for our userid and groupid onto the src directory:

  sudo chmod ug+rwx /usr/local/src
  

Earlier Ubuntu versions

For earlier Ubuntu versions, watch out for dependency differences! Modify the dependency list given above as instructed below.

• for Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (13.04), change the following dependencies:
  • libav-tools libavutil-dev --> ffmpeg
  • --> lesstif2-dev

• for Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04), change the following dependencies:
  • libpnglite-dev --> libpngwriter-dev
  • libtiff5-dev --> libtiff4-dev

• for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) or later, change the following dependencies:
  • libpngwriter-dev --> libpngwriter0-dev
  • libcairo-dev --> libcairo2-dev
  • fftw3 --> libfftw3-3
  • fftw3-dev --> libfftw3-dev

• for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) or later, also install:

  sudo apt-get install libhdf4-alt-dev libhdf4-0-alt
  

• for earlier Ubuntu versions, also install:

   sudo apt-get install libhdf4g-dev libhdf4g-run
  

Using pre-compiled dev Packages for PROJ.4, GEOS and GDAL

PROJ.4

Install the dev package:

sudo apt-get install libproj-dev proj-data proj-bin

• In the call to ./configure for GRASS, replace --with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj/ by --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/

GEOS

Install the dev package:

# probably you also need to additionally install "libgeos-c1v5"
sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev

• In the call to ./configure for GRASS, replace --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config by --with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config

GDAL

Install the dev package (possibly without support for datumgrid):

sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

For support of WMS in wxGUI install Python GDAL bindings and GDAL executables:

sudo apt-get install python-gdal gdal-bin

• Install also the required extra packages (note the message: The following extra packages will be installed:)
• Look out for packages to be removed by this operation -- this is most likely caused by incompatible package versions. Fix these problems in advance using commands like the following:

  sudo apt-get install <package>=<required.version>
  

GRASS-GIS

Jump to sub-section GRASS-GIS below

Using pre-compiled dev Packages for PROJ.4, GEOS and GDAL from GIS.lab PPA

Ivan Mincik has made all required packages available in his PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:imincik/gis
sudo apt-get install libproj-dev libgdal-dev python-gdal libgeos-dev

Now you can either also install GRASS GIS 7 from there or compile it yourself (see Jump to sub-section GRASS-GIS below)

Compile from source

PROJ4

• within the directory /usr/local/src (create it if it does not exist) checkout proj from its Subversion repository:

  svn co http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj/branches/4.8/proj/
  

• get proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip from proj' trac and move it under proj/nad

wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
mv proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip /usr/local/src/proj/nad
cd /usr/local/src/proj/nad

• decompress it

  unzip proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
  

• go back to the proj directory

  cd /usr/local/src/proj
  

• if required, clean previous configuration & compilation

  make distclean
  

• simple configure, compile and install

  ./configure  &&  make  &&  sudo make install
  

or

./configure && make -j2  &&  sudo checkinstall

• ensure that /usr/local/lib is added to /etc/ld.so.conf and afterwards run

  sudo ldconfig
  

• finally, go back to the parent directory simply by instructing

  cd ..
  

GEOS

• download geos-3.4.2.tar.bz2 from http://trac.osgeo.org/geos using wget

  wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.4.2.tar.bz2
  

• move to the "source-code" directory and decompress

cd /usr/local/src/
bunzip2 geos-3.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xvf  geos-3.4.2.tar

• if required, clean previous configuration & compilation

  make distclean
  

• move to geos directory

  cd geos-3.4.2
  

• simple configure, compile and install

  ./configure  &&  make  &&  sudo make install
  

or

./configure  && make -j2  &&  sudo checkinstall

• do not forget to execute

  sudo ldconfig
  

GDAL

Note, GDAL must be compiled without GRASS support

• download the current stable version

  svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/1.11/gdal gdal_stable
  

• enter in the gdal_stable directory

  cd /usr/local/src/gdal_stable
  

• optionally, update the source code

  svn up
  

• if required, clean previous configurations/compilations

  make distclean
  

• a simple configuration without any parameters will detect and support various installed libraries

  ./configure
  

• skip to the compile and install step or check the following customised configuration example

CFLAGS="-g -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \
--with-png=internal \
--with-libtiff=internal \
--with-geotiff=internal \
--with-jpeg=internal \
--with-gif=internal \
--with-ecw=no \
--with-expat=yes \
--with-sqlite3=yes \
--with-geos=yes \
--with-python \
--with-libz=internal \
--with-netcdf \
--with-threads=yes \
--without-grass  \
--without-ogdi \
--with-pg=/usr/bin/pg_config \
--with-xerces=yes

• compile, install & ldconfig

  make -j2  &&  sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig
  

or

make -j2  &&  sudo checkinstall  &&  sudo ldconfig

GRASS GIS

Note the differences between different GRASS version (SVN branches) in download and cofiguration. Note also the changes required if you installed some of the dependencies from packages (rather then compiled them yourself).

To fully understand the build process, read the INSTALL file, which is located in GRASS' source code root directory. For example, if you have problems related to 32bit versus 64bit, pay attention to section (C), entitled COMPILATION NOTES for 64bit platforms.

Getting GRASS' source code

Select from one of the GRASS GIS versions and download (using SVN) the source code:

• VERY OLD STABLE VERSION: current state of the 6.4.x release branch version (stable)

  svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4 grass64_release

• STABLE VERSION: current state of the 7.2.x release branch version (current stable)

  svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_2 grass72_release

• DEVELOPMENT VERSION: current state of the trunk (latest version of code where the development happens)

  svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass7_trunk

• for other versions see GRASS Trac wiki.

Configure, Compile and Install

Enter the directory with the source code (downloaded by svn client), for example:

cd grass72_release

• GRASS GIS 6 example configuration (which can/should be adjusted according to specific needs):

CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-nls \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
--with-readline \
--with-python=yes \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-cairo \
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
--with-motif \
--with-tcltk-includes="/usr/include/tcl8.5" \
--with-ffmpeg=yes --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/libavcodec /usr/include/libavformat /usr/include/libswscale /usr/include/libavutil" \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes="/usr/include/mysql" \
--with-odbc=no

Note, the above configuration uses the Proj4 and GEOS packages compiled from the source. In the case that pre-compiled versions from the repository are required, remove the above corresponding lines to use the "defaults", i.e.

--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \

• GRASS GIS 7 example configuration (which can/should be adjusted according to specific needs):

CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-nls \
--with-cxx \
--with-readline \
--with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-cairo \
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes="/usr/include/mysql" \
--with-odbc=no \
--with-liblas=yes --with-liblas-config=/usr/bin/liblas-config

Note, the above configuration uses the Proj4 and GEOS packages compiled from the source. In the case that pre-compiled versions from the repository are required, remove the above corresponding lines to use the "defaults", i.e. (note the backslashe at the end of each line)

--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \

Note 2, if compiling with liblas, you will want liblas compiled with laszip support. liblas will look for laszip includes in /usr/local/include/laszip by default. Creating the laszip directory in /usr/local/include and making a soft link. ln -s /usr/local/include/lasz*.hpp /usr/local/include/laszip and ln -s /usr/local/include/lasunz*.hpp /usr/local/include/laszip should allow liblas to compile with laszip support

• compile & install

  make -j2  &&  sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig

or

make -j2  &&  sudo checkinstall  &&  sudo ldconfig

For subsequent updates execute (not need for the first time):

svn up
make -j2 && sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig

Sometimes, it is required to clean previous configuration and compilation:

make distclean
svn up
./configure ... # (use the configure command above)
make -j2 && sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig

GDAL-GRASS-Plugin

• get the plugin from OSGeo's Download Server: "gdal-grass-X.Y.Z.tar.gz" using wget

# update version number accordingly!
wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.3/gdal-grass-3.2.3.tar.gz
tar xvzf gdal-grass-3.2.3.tar.gz
cd gdal-grass-3.2.3

• create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/grass.conf or add in /etc/ld.so.conf the GRASS library path:

# GRASS 7.8 library path (adapt as needed)
/usr/local/src/releasebranch_7_8/lib

# GRASS 7 (development version) library path (adapt as needed)
/usr/local/src/grass_master/lib

• optionally, clean previous configurations/compilations

   make distclean

• configure -- point to GRASS installation/binaries

 ./configure \
 --prefix=/usr/local \
 --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
 --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-7.8.git/ \
 --with-autoload="/usr/local/lib64/gdalplugins/" \
 --with-ld-shared="g++ -shared"

• for GRASS 7.6, replace with --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-7.6.3/
• for GRASS 7.x...

• compile & install using checkinstall

   make -j2  &&  sudo checkinstall

Post compilation/installation control

• For a recommended quick-check read the Troubleshooting section at Compile_and_install_GDAL-GRASS_plugin

• in case of errors in future compilation attempts, remember to remove program binaries and files created with the "configuration" from previous compilations with

make distclean

• another common mistake is compiling a module against some GRASS version and then try to run it through another GRASS version. The solution is to recompile the affected module or, in case there are multiple GRASS installations, set up properly LD_LIBRARY_PATH paths.

Removal of GRASS

To get rid of a GRASS binaries installation, delete (update version numbers accordingly)

• /usr/local/grass-7.8.1.dev (directory, binaries location)
• /usr/local/bin/grass78 (file)
• /home/username/.grassrc7 (file)

If wanted, delete also the complete source code:

• /usr/local/src/grass78_release (directory, source code location)

To remove grass (or any other package) which was installed by checkinstall, use dpkg, e.g.

sudo dpkg -r grass78 # package name defined at installation is important

Packaging of GRASS

• See https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/grass/tree/master/debian for directions on rolling your own packages.

For details about the auto-nightly-builds and after-market supplied packages from UbuntuGIS, please refer to the Ubuntu Packaging wiki page.

See also

• Docker: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/docker-images/
• Ubuntu Packaging
• GRASS in Debian

Archived Notes

Notes that concern the configuration and compilation of GRASS GIS and its dependencies for older versions of Ubuntu-Linux.

Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit

• Compiling latest GRASS source code on a 64-bit machine (with an ATI graphic card) under Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit with support for: 64-bit, SQLite, OpenGL, PYTHON, FFMPEG

(Based on "Ubuntu 6.06 LTS - GRASS 6.1 Compilation Script" by David Finlayson) Assuming it is the first time attempting to compile GRASS' source code & installing SVN, PROJ, GDAL/OGR

Preparation

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

• install dependencies for compiling (in general) and dependencies for GRASS: PROJ, GDAL/OGR

sudo apt-get install grass build-essential flex bison libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev \
libgdal1-dev libtiff4-dev libgcc1 libpng12-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev fftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libavcodec-dev libxmu-dev gdal-bin libreadline5 libreadline5-dev \
make python-dev python-wxversion

• install SQLite

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

• install SVN

sudo apt-get install subversion

• create a directory as a simple user where source code(s) are going to be stored (in our example we use a directory called src under /usr/local)

sudo mkdir /usr/local/src

• grant rwx (read-write-execute) permissions for our userid/ groupid on the directory (replace words userid and groupid with real userid):

sudo chown userid:groupid /usr/local/src

sudo chmod ug+rwx /usr/local/src

• download latest source code from GRASS SVN repository in a directory on the system (e.g. /usr/local/src)

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk

• Above command places GRASS' source code in /usr/local/src/grass_trunk. In case of a subsequent update use the command: svn up from within the grass_trunk directory

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Before attempting to compile GRASS, READ section (C) in the INSTALL file located in the main directory of GRASS source code entitled: (C) COMPILATION NOTES for 64bit platforms

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• installing FFTW3 if not already on system

sudo apt-get install fftw3 fftw3-dev

FFMPEG

Note: Back in Ubuntu 7.10, installing ffmpeg through the repositories wouldn't work with grass. The following steps were successfully used.

• install FFMPEG (information taken from: http://stream0.org/2008/01/install-ffmpeg-on-ubuntu-gutsy.html)
• download source code with svn

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

• install dependencies

sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev \
     liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libx264-dev libdts-dev checkinstall \
     build-essential subversion

• guide to ffmpeg directory

cd ffmpeg

if necessary: make distclean before configuration (look at notes below)

• configuration (note: the configuration parameter "--enable-pp" does not work anymore)

# configure FFMPEG
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora \
            --enable-liba52 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libgsm \
            --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac \
            --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 \
            --enable-shared

• compilation

make

• installation on /usr/local/bin -- important to remember when configuring GRASS' source code for compilation

sudo checkinstall

Go for GRASS!

• in our example we used the /usr/local/src directory to store GRASS' source code, so:

cd /usr/local/src/grass_trunk

• configuration

 CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure --enable-64bit \
       --with-libs=/usr/lib64 --with-cxx --with-freetype=yes \
       --with-postgres=no --with-sqlite=yes --enable-largefile=yes \
       --with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.4 \
       --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
       --with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL --with-readline \
       --with-python=yes --with-ffmpeg=yes \
       --with-ffmpeg-includes=/usr/local/include/ffmpeg

• if OpenGL fails then maybe it is necessary to link glxATI.h with glx.h and re-run the configuration

cd /usr/include/GL

sudo ln glxATI.h glx.h

• compilation

make

• compilation is expected to end with a statement similar to the following:

Started compilation: Wed Feb 27 00:24:36 CET 2008
--
Errors in:
No errors detected.

• installation

sudo checkinstall

• launch 64-bit GRASS.6.4.svn

grass64

Notes

• in case of errors in future compilation attempts, remember to remove program binaries with

make clean

• and the files created with the "configuration" from previous compilations with

make distclean

Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10

• makegrass.sh is script designed to automate most of the download, configuration and compilation of GRASS 6.x-CVS
  • it is advised use checkinstall (sudo apt-get install checkinstall) instead of make install to keep track of installed software
  • Think twice before using this script. Some users experienced problems such as disabled XGL etc.
• Here is another of these scripts, it's homemade so probably you'll find the above more useful for production sites.