Welcome to the grass-conda channel! This channel provides conda packages for GRASS, built from source as of 2026-06-16 05:51:02Z. It provides daily development snapshots. For official release conda packages, visit here.
grass is the latest release and grass-dev is a daily development snapshot.
See the GitHub repository for recipes, CI workflows, and build details.
# install micromamba
curl -L https://micro.mamba.pm/install.sh | env \
BIN_FOLDER="$HOME/local/bin" \
PREFIX_LOCATION="$HOME/opt/micromamba" \
sh
# source micromamba
source ~/.bashrc
# install GRASS (c-compiler for g.extension)
micromamba create -n grass -yc https://grass-conda.isnew.info/ grass-dev c-compiler
# run GRASS
micromamba run -n grass grass
rem install micromamba
mkdir %USERPROFILE%\local\bin
curl -L https://github.com/mamba-org/micromamba-releases/releases/latest/download/micromamba-win-64.exe -o %USERPROFILE%\local\bin\micromamba.exe
rem if %USERPROFILE%\local\bin is not in PATH
set PATH=%USERPROFILE%\local\bin;%PATH%
setx PATH %PATH%
rem set the root prefix of micromamba
set MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=%USERPROFILE%\opt\micromamba
setx MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX %MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX%
rem initialize micromamba
micromamba shell init --shell cmd.exe
rem setup conda-forge
micromamba config append channels conda-forge,nodefaults
micromamba config set channel_priority strict
rem install GRASS (c-compiler for g.extension); type micromamba, NOT micromamba.exe
micromamba create -n grass -yc https://grass-conda.isnew.info/ grass-dev c-compiler
rem run GRASS
micromamba run -n grass grass
The modernization of the GRASS build system, including the transition to CMake, Windows MSVC support, and conda packaging, is supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) POSE program award 2303651.