NAME¶

g.extension - Tool to maintain GRASS extensions in local GRASS installation. Downloads, installs extensions from GRASS Addons SVN repository into local GRASS installation or removes installed extensions.

KEYWORDS¶

general, extensions

SYNOPSIS¶

g.extension g.extension help g.extension [-lsu] [extension=name] [operation= name] svnurl=url [prefix=path] [-- verbose] [--quiet]

Flags:¶

-l

 

List available modules in the GRASS Addons SVN repository

-s

 

Install system-wide (may need system administrator rights)

-u

 

Install system-wide using sudo

--verbose

 

Verbose module output

--quiet

 

Quiet module output

Parameters:¶

extension=name

 

Name of extension to install/remove

operation=name

 

Operation to be performed

 

Options: add,remove

 

Default: add

svnurl=url

 

SVN Addons repository URL

 

Default: http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/grass6

prefix=path

 

Prefix where to install extension

 

Default: $GRASS_ADDON_PATH

DESCRIPTION¶

g.extension downloads community contributed addon modules from the GRASS-addons Subversion repository (SVN) and installs them on the local system. These include modules providing specialist functionality, modules in development and beta testing, newly proposed modules, experimental modules, and simple helper scripts. There are additional code contributions in the SVN repository which are either incomplete or complex to install and so not available through g.extension. The addons repository acts in part as an incubation area, so the code there may not be as polished and well reviewed as the core GRASS modules, or it may not even work at all. All code is license-compatible with GRASS and can be used, shared, and modified under the same Free-software terms. You are both welcome and encouraged to contribute your own scripts there, and so make them available via g.extension, if you feel they would be useful to others. Re-running the script for an installed GRASS addon module re-installs the requested extension. This is a handy way to apply updates or rebuild compiled modules after installing a new version of GRASS. The default action is to install the files into the first directory listed in the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable. If that has not been set it will default to ~/.grass6/addons/ on UNIX or %APPDATA%\GRASS6\addons on MS Windows. With suitable administrative permissions you can optionally install directly into the main GRASS program directory ($GISBASE).

NOTES¶

The wxGUI contains a graphical extension manager separate to this version of g.extension. The wxGUI Extension Manager can be found in the Settings menu. While they are generally interchangable, this help page describes the version of g.extension run from the GRASS command line. If one method of installing the addon fails you might try again with the other. Help and man pages installed with the module will be available through the g.manual module. If your GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable contains more than one path, the default action is to use the first directory in the list. Custom user scripts and installed addons can share the same addons directory.
Note: Bourne shell and Python scripts run within GRASS that use the g.parser module must be in the system's search PATH, or else g.parser will not be able to find them and complain about a failure to obtain the module's interface description. As long as the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable is set before you start GRASS this will be taken care of automatically at startup. For users building all of GRASS from source code who have also checked out the GRASS-addons Subversion repository, an alternate approach is to cd into the addon module's source directory, then run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass/source UNIX users can set up an alias in their ~/.bash_aliases file:
alias gmake643='make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass643/source' Users with GRASS installed from a GNU/Linux package can build without the full GRASS source code installed, but they will need the associated grass-dev and grass-doc packages installed. Upgrading the GRASS version and users with multiple versions of GRASS installed on the same system require special care when dealing with compiled addon modules (those written in C and C++ and linking to the GRASS C libraries). If you try to run a compiled C addon module which was built using a different version of GRASS, you will get an error that the module can not find the shared GIS libraries of the other version, or if it can find them it will still check the internal versions and exit with an error if they do not match. In these cases you can simply re-run g.extension to rebuild the module and solve the problem. You can typically share a single GRASS_ADDON_PATH directory for Bourne shell scripts and Python addon modules written for any version of GRASS 6. Since your Addon modules and scripts will typically be in your user's home directory and thus persist even when GRASS is upgraded or reinstalled, some notes on compatibility:

EXAMPLES¶

Download and install i.landsat.toar into the current GRASS addons directory:
g.extension r.out.kml

BUGS¶

This is a relatively new module and obtaining successful behavior on all platforms is rather tricky. Please report any problems to the GRASS bug tracker. If this automatic build fails, instructions for compiling both the GRASS source code and GRASS addons by hand can be found in the GRASS wiki. Note that Bourne shell and Python scripts can simply be downloaded from the online Subversion repository browser and moved into your GRASS_ADDON_PATH directory by hand. On UNIX you will likely need to set the executable bit using chmod before the script will run. In this case the associated usage section of the help page will not be created. Installing addon Python scripts on MS Windows is still experimental and is not guaranteed to work properly at run-time due to association of ".py" file extensions with python.exe. It is possible to run them, but be aware that you will typically need to call them with ".py" as part of the module name.

SEE ALSO¶

AUTHORS¶

Markus Neteler Martin Landa Hamish Bowman Last changed: $Date: 2013-07-03 11:25:54 +0200 (Wed, 03 Jul 2013) $ Full index © 2003-2014 GRASS Development Team