Scope of this page

This pages is intended to users and developers who want to test a GRASS installation (test protocol). As side effect, you can also showcase GRASS 6 using these commands.

Requirements

• GRASS 6 installation (source code and ​binaries download)
• Educational data set: OSGeo Educational data set North Carolina: ​data and ​description.

Start of the program

GRASS 6 is started either from the menu (if installed therein) or from command line. In all cases, select mapset "user1".

# show available options
grass63 --help

Expected result: the help text should be shown.

# start with old Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface (d.m)
grass63 -oldtcltk

# start with current Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface (g.gis)
grass63 -tcltk

# start with wxPython based graphical user interface
grass63 -wxpython

Expected result: the selected graphical user interface should come up.

# start with text based interface
grass63 -text

Expected result: the text user interface should come up.

Display various maps (not native winGRASS)

g.region rast=elevation
d.mon x0
d.rast elevation
d.vect roadsmajor

Expected result: GRASS monitor should open and show the selected maps

d.his i=elevation_shade h=elevation
d.vect roadsmajor

# set barscale position per mouse click into map:
d.barscale -mt