g.extension.all(1grass)

💖 g.extension.all — the GRASS User's Manual glow-up 💖

ok so bestie, you know how you've got like a million GRASS Addons installed and some of them are giving... outdated? yeah. this is the page for g.extension.all(1grass) and she is the group-chat organizer of your local extension folder 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

g.extension.all — she rebuilds or removes all the locally installed GRASS Addons extensions. iconic behaviour.

by default tho, she's picky: only the extensions that were built against a different GIS Library get rebuilt. not doing extra work for no reason 💅

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🔑 KEYWORDS 🔑

general, installation, extensions

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

g.extension.all
g.extension.all --help
g.extension.all [-f]  [operation=string]   [--help]  [--verbose]
[--quiet]  [--ui]

🚩 Flags:

• -f — Force operation (and ngl, this one is required if you're doing a removal, so don't skip her)
• --help — Print usage summary
• --verbose — Verbose module output
• --quiet — Quiet module output
• --ui — Force launching GUI dialog

🌸 Parameters:

• operation=string — Operation to be performed
  • Options: rebuild, remove
  • Default: rebuild

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

g.extension.rebuild.all reinstalls and updates all the locally installed GRASS Addons extensions in your local GRASS installation. so like, a whole lil spa day for your extensions 🧖✨

the extensions themselves can be installed by g.extension — that's the one who does the installing, not this queen.

and if you wanna see the list of locally installed extensions? that's g.extension -a. go check, you probably have more than you think 💀

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Rebuild locally installed extensions which were built against different GIS Library (see g.version -r)

g.extension.rebuild.all

Force to rebuild all locally installed extensions

g.extension.rebuild.all -f

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• g.extension

also, See also GRASS Addons wiki page.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Martin Landa, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

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🔥 SOURCE CODE 🔥

Available at: g.extension.all source code (history)

Latest change: Tuesday Oct 21 09:57:14 2025 in commit: fb0165c2d021b7700528aca09c224847be871729

Main index | General index | Topics index | Keywords index | Graphical index | Full index

© 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual

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bestie reminder: -f is not optional for removal. that's not a vibe, that's a rule 🫣

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and that's the whole page, fr fr 💖 this was GRASS 8.5.0, served straight from the g.extension.all(1grass) manual — go rebuild something gorgeous, mwah 🎀✨