Installing GRASS GIS 7 on the Ubuntu 16 04
Installing GRASS GIS 7 on the Ubuntu 16 04
If you try to install GRASS GIS on the Ubuntu 16.04.1 according to instructions on GRASS site, you may encounter issue like this:
$ sudo apt-get install grassThat is because packages grass-core and grass-gui depend on packages that are not part of Canonical supported repository. You need to enable "universe" repository in "Software & Updates".
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
grass : Depends: grass-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: grass-gui but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

After that installing GRASS GIS 7.0 is as simple as sudo apt-get install grass.