grass 7.8 from the science package

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grass
Starting GRASS GIS...
ERROR: wxGUI requires wxPython. No module named 'wx'

I’m sure I can hack my way around this problem, but how do i contact the maintainer to fix this in the build.

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I see no package names “science” in the OSS (or non-OSS) repo. Thus you probably have got it from another repo. Thus I would start my search for a maintainer by trying to find the maintainer of the repo you used.

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Hi
Since it’s built with python3, you need python3-wxPython, I suggest the backports repository;

https://software.opensuse.org/package/python-wxPython?search_term=python-wxPython

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For situations like this that come up often (files missing, not found, unavailable, tec)
It comes up often enough for every Linux user so I wrote a Wiki article on how to find needed files…

https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/Missing_Files_Dependencies

And, of course I understand that your app is installed from the science repository, not science package.
Please submit a bug to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org so that it can be fixed and others won’t run into the same problem.

HTH,
TSU

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Hi
Just be aware, it’s not a packaging bug, the file in question is not in the distribution, and in this case won’t get in and has to be obtained from the third party repository…

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I did the installation of wxpython. New errors:


grass
Starting GRASS GIS...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/grass78/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 1146, in OnInit
    StartUp = GRASSStartup()
  File "/usr/lib64/grass78/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 224, in __init__
    self._do_layout()
  File "/usr/lib64/grass78/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 399, in _do_layout
    description=self.llocation)
  File "/usr/lib64/grass78/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 376, in layout_list_box
    border=1)
wx._core.wxAssertionError: C++ assertion "!(flags & wxALIGN_CENTRE_HORIZONTAL)" failed at /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/wxPython-4.1.0/ext/wxWidgets/src/common/sizer.cpp(2106) in DoInsert(): Horizontal alignment flags are ignored in horizontal sizers
OnInit returned false, exiting...
ERROR: Error in GUI startup. See messages above (if any) and if necessary, please report this error to the GRASS developers.
On systems with package manager, make sure you have the right GUI package, probably named grass-gui, installed.
To run GRASS GIS in text mode use the --text flag.
Use '--help' for further options
     grass78 --help
See also: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/helptext.html
Exiting...

Note when you go to the grass.osgeo.org website, they suggest using the geo repo. That has a older rev than science. Both have the same problem.

Would I be better off just building grass myself? Incidentally grass was working fine on 15.1.

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Hi
More than likely needs updating if it’s old and a bug report to get it updated, or if familiar with the Build Service, branching and updating?

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Well for yucks I decided to build grass. Pro tip: don’t download the tar file. I didn’t find a config file. Using github had the config file.
[https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/
Second pro tip:


./configure --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2

```](https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/)
So I am running grass7.9. However since I built the binary I should have all the proper libraries for grass 7.8. However I get the previous error message trying to run that binary.
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Hi
What is the python2-wxPython version installed, it needs to be =>4.0 AFAIK.

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I have a python3-wxPython. It is 4.1.0.