Compile and Install Ubuntu

This page shall help to install the latest GRASS on Ubuntu based systems.

Current Release Branch

The manual is based on Ubuntu 9.04.

Dependencies

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 libjpeg62-dev libgdal1-dev libtiff4-dev libgcc1 tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev fftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev libavcodec-dev libxmu-dev gdal-bin libgdal1-dev libreadline5 libreadline5-dev make python-dev python-wxversion swig libavutil-dev libavutil49 

sudo apt-get build-dep grass

• 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/branches/releasebranch_6_4 grass_current

• 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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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 --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 --program-suffix=-svn --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

• 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

Current 6.5.0 Development Branch version of GRASS 6

The following instructions concern the compilation and installation of the current 6.5.0 development branch version of GRASS 6 on Ubuntu based systems. The instructions were tested on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04.

Dependencies

Preparation

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

• install SQLite, SVN and dependencies for compiling PROJ, GEOS, GDAL/OGR, GRASS, GDAL-GRASS-PLUGIN:

sudo apt-get install \
build-essential \
make \
flex \
bison \
gcc \
libgcc1 \
g++ \
cmake \
ccache \
swig swig1.3 \
python python-dev \
python3 python3-dev \
python-qt4 python-qt4-dev \
sip4 \
python-sip4 python-sip4-dev \
python-opengl \
libgsl0-dev \
python-wxversion python-wxtools \
python-wxgtk2.8 \
wx2.8-headers wx-common \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dbg \
libwxbase2.8-dev  libwxbase2.8-dbg \
ruby \
libncurses5-dev \
zlib1g-dev \
libjpeg62-dev \
libtiff4-dev \
libpngwriter-dev \
libhdf4g-dev libhdf4g-run \
tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev \
libcairo libcairo-dev \
sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
libpq-dev \
libreadline5 libreadline5-dev libfreetype6-dev \
txt2tags \
fftw3 fftw3-dev \
libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-sql
libqt4-qt3support \
lsb-qt4 qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc qt4-qtconfig \
libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf \
libjasper-dev \
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

PROJ4

• download proj-4.6.1.tar.gz and proj-datumgrid-1.4.zip from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj
• move and decompress PROJ4 to /usr/local/src directory

tar xzvf proj-4.6.1.tar.gz

• move proj-datumgrid-1.4.tar.gz to proj/nad

unzip proj-datumgrid-1.4.zip

• clean previous configuration & compilation

make distclean

• simple configure, compile and install

./configure  &&  make  &&  sudo make install

GEOS

• download geos-3.1.1.tar.bz2 from http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
• move to "source-code" folder and decompress

bunzip geos-3.1.1.tar.bz2
tar xvf  geos-3.1.1.tar.bz2

• clean previous configuration & compilation

make distclean

• simple configure, compile and install

./configure  &&  make  &&  sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig

• Ensure that /usr/local/lib is added to /etc/ld.so.conf
• Ensure that you run /sbin/ldconfig afterwards

sudo ldconfig

GDAL

• Must* compile without GRASS support

• enter in directory gdal_stable

cd /usr/local/src/gdal_stable

• download with svn ## or update with svn up

• clean previous configurations/compilations

make distclean

• configure

CFLAGS="-g -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \
--with-png=internal \
--with-libtiff=internal \
--with-geotiff=internal \
--with-jpeg=internal \
--with-gif=internal \
--with-ecw=yes \
--with-expat=yes \
--with-expat-inc=/usr/include/ \
--with-expat-lib=/usr/lib \
--with-sqlite3=yes \
--with-geos=yes \
--with-python \
--with-libz=internal \
--with-netcdf \
--with-sqlite \
--with-threads=yes \
--without-grass  \
--without-ogdi \
--with-pg=/usr/bin/pg_config \
--with-xerces=yes

• compile & install & ldconfig

make  &&  sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig

GRASS

Getting GRASS' source code

• download current 6.5.0 development branch from GRASS SVN repository in a directory on the system (e.g. /usr/local/src)

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/develbranch_6 grass6_devel

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

• for latest development branch version of GRASS 7 and other versions follow instructions at Downloading GRASS Source

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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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Suport for ffmpeg

• add extra dependencies to get ffmpeg support when compiling grass' source code under Ubuntu 64bit

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

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" ./configure \
--enable-debug \
--enable-64bit \
--with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-freetype=yes \
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--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-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj/ \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-cairo \
--with-ffmpeg=yes \
--with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/mythtv/ffmpeg/ /usr/include/libavcodec /usr/include/libavformat /usr/include/libswscale"

• compilation

make

• installation

sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig

GDAL-GRASS-PLUGIN

• get the plugin from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal gdal-grass-1.4.3.tar.gz
• create grass6.conf or add in ld.so.conf the GRASS library path

• clean previous configurations/compilations

make distclean

• configure ##point to grass installation as needed

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-grass=/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn/ \

--with-autoload="/usr/local/lib/gdalplugins/" \

--with-ld-shared="g++ -shared"

• change to grass_trunk for grass7 if compiling GRASS version 7

• compile & install

make  &&  sudo make install

• launch 64-bit GRASS

grass65

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