GRASS 5 for Mandrake Linux

Mandrake Linux is a large distribution, and MandrakeSoft cannot officially
support all packages that may be useful, thus the "contributed" rpms, which
are synchronised with each main release, many of which are maintained by
non-Mandrakesoft contributors.
GRASS (5.0.0 is in Mandrake 9.1 contribs) is such a package, and also relies
on a number of such packages. 

Possible ways to get GRASS for Mandrake Linux:

1) First you can search MandrakeClub for RPMs.


2) The GRASS packages are also compiled against the some libraries,
   and so will also require packages from contrib.

   To setup your Mandrake Linux system to install packages from contrib,
   either:
   a) Buy a PowerPack or ProSuite version (both ship with grass-5.0.0)
   b) Add a contrib urpmi medium to the list of sources on your computer,
      which can be easily done, either by running 
       urpmi.setup ('urpmi urpmi.setup; urpmi.setup') or by visiting
       http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon

   The page http://plf.zarb.org/faq.html may also explain some more of the
   issues.

   NOTE: With a few urpmi media setups, you will never need to search for packages
   (ie at rpmfind.net again (unless you are looking for newer versions ...).

3) An alternative is:

You can install GRASS 5 via 'urpmi' from my site:
 
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake

Feedback welcome.
 
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