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[Bug] Launching GRASS GIS database (projects) manual from the wxGUI Data catalog Info bar component is not working
Describe the bug
Launching GRASS GIS database manual from the wxGUI Data catalog Info bar component Learn more button widget is not working.
To reproduce
- Backup GRASS GIS settings directory if exists:
mv .grass8 .grass8_bckp - Launch GRASS GIS with GUI
- On the Data catalog Info bar component hit Learn more button widget
- See error
(Mon Nov 10 07:08:26 2025)
g.manual entry=grass_projects
ERROR: No HTML manual page entry for 'grass_projects'
(Mon Nov 10 07:08:26 2025) Command ended with non-zero return code 1 (0 sec)
Expected behavior
Launching GRASS GIS database manual from the wxGUI Data catalog Info bar component Learn more button widget should work.
Screenshots
System description
- Operating System: all
- GRASS version: 8.5.0dev
During local GRASS GIS compilation process is still using HTML files for generating HTML man pages instead of MD files.
To solve the issue, it should be enough to rename the file grass_database.html to grass_projects.html
tomas@gentoo-gnu-linux:~/src/grass/doc$ ls -l grass_database.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomas tomas 11156 Nov 10 08:02 grass_database.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomas tomas 9455 Oct 23 22:04 grass_database.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomas tomas 50199 Nov 5 2024 grass_database.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomas tomas 26431 Nov 5 2024 grass_database.svg
But MD equivalent file grass_database.md is not possible rename to grass_projects.md file, because file exists.
tomas@gentoo-gnu-linux:~/src/grass/doc$ ls -l grass_projects.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomas tomas 12553 Oct 23 22:04 grass_projects.md
You need to build the documentation, then it will work.
cd man
make build-mkdocs
You need to build the documentation, then it will work.
cd man make build-mkdocs
Thanks. But I have the GRASS documentation (old way of creating HTML docs) created automatically during compilation process.