Installing GRASS GIS 7.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

Unfortunately, GRASS GIS development version package for 7.0 is not in a good shape now. I would suggest to compile GRASS GIS from the source code. (Edit: GRASS GIS 7.0 was released, so situation is different; this was valid for September 2014, however the compilation can be advantageous anyway.)

You need to install compile tools and dependencies, download source code using SVN, configure, compile and install.

The steps are described here:

http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu

Go through the sections:

• Dependencies
• Using pre-compiled dev Packages for PROJ.4, GEOS and GDAL
• Compile from source, subsection GRASS GIS

Here are the actual steps (partially mine, partially extracted from the wiki page):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
    flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ cmake ccache \
    python python-dev \
    python-opengl \
    python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 \
    python-dateutil libgsl0-dev python-numpy \
    wx2.8-headers wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dbg \
    libwxbase2.8-dev  libwxbase2.8-dbg \
    libncurses5-dev \
    zlib1g-dev gettext \
    libtiff-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

More dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libproj-dev
sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
sudo apt-get install python-gdal

Navigate to the directory where you want the code and GRASS GIS to be compiled (e.g. ~/dev or ~/bin or /usr/local/src or /opt/, ...).

Then to get the latest code for 7.0 release use:

svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0 grass70_release

Go to the directory which was created by svn:

cd grass70_release

Configuration:

export CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall"
export CXXFLAGS="-O2 -Wall"
export LDFLAGS="-s"
./configure \
    --enable-largefile=yes \
    --with-nls \
    --with-cxx \
    --with-readline \
    --with-pthread \
    --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
    --with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
    --with-wxwidgets \
    --with-cairo \
    --with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
    --with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
    --with-postgresql=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

Compile:

make -j2

The number after -j is number of cores which should be used for compilation (this may speed up the compilation, it does not influence the result).

Install:

sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

You can optionally not install but then you have to run GRASS GIS using full path to the source code directory (../grass70_release), subdirectory bin, file grass70.

To update the source code later, use:

svn up

And then compile again.

Time to time, you need to recompile everything, so do

make distclean

and then start with configuration and continue with compilation and installation.

Install grass70-core with synaptic package and it will work.

In march 2016 I installed it (version 6.4.3, not 7 but may be useful) quite easy with "Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS)" from Ubuntu Software Center.

1. First you need to install some tools:

   sudo apt-get install gnupg software-properties-common
   

2. Now install the QGIS Signing Key, so QGIS software from the QGIS repo will be trusted and installed:

   sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 51F523511C7028C3
   

3. Add the QGIS repo for the latest stable QGIS (3.12.x București):

   Note: lsb_release -c -s in those lines will return your distro name

   sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://qgis.org/ubuntu `lsb_release -c -s` main"
   

4. Update your repository information to reflect also the just added QGIS one:

   sudo apt-get update
   

5. Now, install QGIS!

   Note: add qgis-server to this line if you also want to install QGIS Server:

   sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass
   

and fire up [

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