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Old Software Releases

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.
Please use the GRASS mirror site nearest to you.

[ GRASS 6.3.0 | 6.2.3 | 6.1.0 | 6.0.2 | 5.4.1 | GRASS 5 CVS | historic ]

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GRASS 6.3.0 (testing version; many new features, more...)
This version was mature enough to be used for day to day work.
Binaries Source code Manuals
GNU/Linux GNU/Linux:
Debian
Ubuntu

MacOSX MacOSX

MS-Windows MS-Windows:
Native installer
Cygwin (UNIX emulation)
QGIS 0.11 GRASS toolbox
grass-6.3.0.tar.gz (grass-6.3.0.md5sum)

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

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GRASS 6.2.3 (old stable version; more...)
Lacks latest features, but very well tested.
Binaries Source code Manuals
GNU/Linux GNU/Linux:
Generic
Debian
Fedora Core
Gentoo
Mandriva (2007 via urpmi from backports)
OpenSUSE (alt 1)
Ubuntu

MacOSX MacOSX
MS-Windows MS Windows (Cygwin)

Weekly snapshot:
GNU/Linux 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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GRASS 6.1.0 (frozen for development; advanced vectors, more...)
Binaries Source code Manuals
RPMs
Debian GNU/Linux
MacOSX
Native MS-Windows (QGIS+GRASS)
grass-6.1.0.tar.gz (grass-6.1.0.md5sum)
GRASS CVS server
Tutorial (HTML)
User manual pages (HTML)
Programmer's Manual

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GRASS 6.0.2 (advanced vectors, more...)
Binaries Source code Manuals
Debian GNU/Linux
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4,5
RPMs
Slackware
MacOSX
MS Windows / Cygwin
grass-6.0.2.tar.gz (grass-6.0.2.md5sum)
Source code directory

weekly 6.0.x release branch source code snapshot

Tutorial (HTML)
User manual pages (HTML)
Programmer's Manual

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GRASS 5.4.1 (old vectors, more...)
Binaries Source code Manuals
Generic GNU/Linux
MacOSX
MS Windows / Cygwin
grass-5.4.1.tar.gz (md5sum)
Source code directory
GRASS CVS server
User manual pages (HTML)
Tutorial (HTML/PDF)
Programmer's Manual

Download historical GRASS 5 from CVS (note that we use SVN since 2008)

The historical GRASS 5 source code is also available by anonymous CVS from the intevation.de server:
  export CVSROOT=:pserver:grass-guest@intevation.de:/home/grass/grassrepository

  cvs login
  #password: "grass" (without quotes)

  cvs -z3 checkout grass

Old Requirements

Installation requirements (needed libraries) - CVS/GRASS FAQ 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

Very old GRASS versions:

List of releases

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 = {2009},
    url = {http://grass.osgeo.org},
  }

  @Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
    title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software},
    author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
    organization = {ITC-irst},
    address = {Trento, Italy},
    year = {2006},
    url = {http://grass.itc.it},
  }
Last change: $Date: 2009-06-04 19:25:49 +0000 (Thu, 04 Jun 2009) $
$Author: neteler $

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