[GRASS-user] error in g.extension, add-ons not written in GUI

[Anna Petrášová]

Could you create a ticket for this with info on Python version, locale
etc.? This happens with any addon? (at least couple randomly tried ones)

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 9:49 AM Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just compiled grass77 in a Linux Mint 19.1 Cinamon laptop following the
> instructions here:
> https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Linux_Mint
>
> All is fine, but when we install any add-on, we get:.
> g.extension r.seasons
> Fetching <r.seasons> from GRASS GIS Addons repository (be patient)...
> Compiling...
> Installing...
> Updating addons metadata file...
> Updating private addons metadata file...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 1933, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main())
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 1913, in main
>     install_extension(source=source, url=url, xmlurl=xmlurl)
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 704, in install_extension
>     blist = install_private_extension_xml(tmp_dir, mlist)
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 1006, in install_private_extension_xml
>     write_xml_modules(xml_file, tree)
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 603, in write_xml_modules
>     (' ' * indent, tnode.find('keywords').text))
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in
> position 19: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> GRASS 7.7.dev (nc_basic_spm_grass7):~ > g.extension extension=v.class.mlR
> Fetching <v.class.mlR> from GRASS GIS Addons repository (be patient)...
> Compiling...
> Installing...
> Updating addons metadata file...
> Updating private addons metadata file...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 1933, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main())
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 1913, in main
>     install_extension(source=source, url=url, xmlurl=xmlurl)
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 704, in install_extension
>     blist = install_private_extension_xml(tmp_dir, mlist)
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 1006, in install_private_extension_xml
>     write_xml_modules(xml_file, tree)
>   File
> "/home/carla/software/grass-7.7.git/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/g.extension",
> line 603, in write_xml_modules
>     (' ' * indent, tnode.find('keywords').text))
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in
> position 29: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> The add-on is indeed installed, but it is not added to the list of
> extensions in the GUI. Is there something we are missing here or in the
> instructions for Mint?? I cannot reproduce in my Fedora box with freshly
> re-compiled grass77
>
> Any hint is wellcome :)
> Cheers,
> Vero
>
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