• Download "Binaries": if you want to install ready-to-use GRASS.
• Download "Source Code": if you want to develop own GRASS extensions or run GRASS on a special computer platform.
• Download Sample data (Spearfish etc.) to try out this software easily.

Please use the GRASS mirror site nearest to you.

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Binaries Source code Manuals

GNU/Linux:
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• Debian • Fedora Core
• Gentoo
• Mandriva (2007 via urpmi from backports)
• OpenSUSE (alt 1)
• Ubuntu

MacOSX
MS Windows (Cygwin)
Weekly snapshot: Generic GNU/Linux

grass-6.2.3.tar.gz (grass-6.2.3.md5sum)

Download latest 6.2-svn code
6.2-svn source code browser Tutorial (HTML)
User manual pages (HTML)
Programmer's Manual
Compiling source code

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Binaries Source code Manuals

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GNU/Linux:
• Generic (generated weekly)
• Debian
• OpenSUSE Geo Repository
• Ubuntu

MacOSX

MS-Windows (native):
• Installer
• QGIS with GRASS toolbox
MS-Windows (requires Cygwin package):
• Installer
grass-6.3.0.tar.gz (grass-6.3.0.md5sum)

6.3-svn source code browser Release notes
Tutorial (HTML)
User manual pages (HTML)
Programmer's Manual
Compiling source code

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Binaries Source code Manuals

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GNU/Linux:
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Weekly 6.4-svn snapshot
6.4-svn source code browser User manual pages (HTML)
Programmer's Manual
Compiling source code

Download from GRASS SVN repository

The latest GRASS development source code and release branches are available from the OSGeo Subversion server, see GRASS-trac: Downloading GRASS Source code. See there for the various branches.

Addons in the GRASS-AddOns SVN repository

The latest GRASS-AddOn source code is available from the OSGeo Subversion server:

  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons grass-addons
  
  #Subsequent updates:
  svn up

Requirements

Installation requirements (needed libraries) - From here you can download all GRASS software, source codes, binaries, manuals, and datasets. Most documentation is in PDF format, so you will need to download: xPDF or Ghostview or Adobe Acrobat Reader - to view and print the manual sets.
For further GRASS Documentation go to the GDP - GRASS Documentation Project

Distribute GRASS!

If you are a software distributor (for example packaging Linux distributions) you are welcome to add GRASS to your software collection under terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). We would be glad to receive a note that you distribute GRASS (see "Comments" at page bottom).

Old GRASS versions:

Download older GRASS versions
Detailed GRASS Releases page with links to source code etc.

Promotional material

Promotional material can be downloaded for printing or sending around from the GRASS Wiki promo page.

Citing GRASS Software

Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some choices depending on the version used:

GRASS Development Team, 2008. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 6.3.0. http://grass.osgeo.org
GRASS Development Team, 2006. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. http://grass.itc.it
GRASS Development Team, 2005. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Programmer's Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php
GRASS Development Team, 2005. GRASS 6.0 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: http://grass.itc.it/grass60/manuals/html_grass60/
GRASS Development Team, 2002. GRASS 5.0 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/
U.S. Army CERL, 1993. GRASS 4.1 Reference Manual. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, Illinois, 1-425.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
    title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software},
    author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
    organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation},
    address = {USA},
    year = {2008},
    url = {http://grass.osgeo.org},
  }

Last change: $Date: 2008-06-24 06:35:21 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jun 2008) $
$Author: hamish $