Live GIS Disc Testing

This wiki describes how to test each application installed in the Live GIS Disc. Each section should contain enough information for an Ubuntu user who is unfamiliar an application to try it out and confirm that everything has been installed correctly.

Main Documentation

Installed from: install_main_docs.sh

• Confirm that Firefox is opened at startup
• Confirm that it opens up at file:///usr/share/livedvd-docs/index.html
• Confirm that the homepage is set to file:///usr/share/livedvd-docs/index.html
• Confirm that you can see descriptions about the different projects.

GRASS

Installed from install_grass.sh

• Double click on the GRASS desktop icon
• You should see a slick "Welcome to GRASS" GUI
• Select Spearfish60 for location, User1 for mapset
• Click on [Start Grass]
• In the Layer Manager GUI window add a raster layer
  • On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a checkerboard
  • On map to be displayed pull down the list and select elevation.dem

from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]

• In the Layer Manager GUI window add a vector layer
  • On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a "V" line
  • For input map name pull down the list and select roads from the

PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]

• Over in the Map Display window toolbar click on the eyeball icon to render

You should now see the maps displayed

That's it.

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