[GRASS-user] get message warning: unable to open font map in i.points such file

[Hamish]

Philipp Steigenberger wrote:
> I use in university a cvs of GRASS 6.3 in debian.
> The other day I got a problems with fonts in i.class and today the
> same using i.points.
> 
> There are no words on the buttons. onlay grey beams (Balken)
> in Konsole I got the message 
>
> WARNING: unable to open font map '/usr/lib/grass/fonts/.hmp': No such
> file
>
> usr/lib/grass/fonts/.hmp contains:
> 
> GRASS:~$ ls -A /usr/lib/grass/fonts/
> cyrilc.hmp   greekc.hmp   hersh.oc1  italicc.hmp   romancs.hmp 
scriptc.hmp
> gothgbt.hmp  greekcs.hmp  hersh.oc2  italiccs.hmp  romand.hmp  
scripts.hmp
> gothgrt.hmp  greekp.hmp   hersh.oc3  italict.hmp   romans.hmp
> gothitt.hmp  greeks.hmp   hersh.oc4 romanc.hmp    romant.hmp
>
>
> any idea what to change?
> May I (as a user) do something or do I need a superuser?
> Should we reinstall a newer cvs?

Apparently stroke fonts fail -- do things like d.legend or d.text print
text? 'unset GRASS_FONT' ?
self compilied? from original source or debian build?

> I there a mirror somewhere where we can find ready-to-use and 
> up-to-date debian-packeges?

It is a moving target, so usually you'd build it yourself, e.g.
  http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/debiangisfiles#compile
or get debian build rules from DebianGIS svn and run auto-build tools.

you might ask on the DebianGIS mailing list for better advice:
  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis

GRASS 6.2.3 (in unstable now, soon to be in testing and etch-backports)
is fine for most work and is well tested.

Currently at backports.org for Debian/Etch is version 6.2.1
  http://packages.debian.org/grass


Hamish



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