[GRASSLIST:5122] Labeling imported layers

Doug Gorley wrote:

When I try to open a window in GRASS, I get the following error:

GRASS:~ > d.mon start=x0
Shared object "libSM.so.6" not found
No socket to connect to for monitor <x0>.
Problem selecting x0. Will try once more
No socket to connect to for monitor <x0>.

The missing file is in two places on my system:

/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
/usr/pkg/share/x11-links/lib/libSM.so.6

How can I get GRASS to find this file?

"libSM.so.6" is almost certainly a symlink to the >actual file (e.g.
libSM.so.6.0), so the actual file also has to >exist.

Assuming that it does, the details of how shared >libraries are located
are highly platform-specific. As you haven't told >us what platform
you're using, I'll assume that it's Linux. In >which case, you need to
ensure that /usr/X11R6/lib is listed in >/etc/ld.so.conf; if it wasn't,
add it, then run "ldconfig" as root.

Thanks, that worked perfectly. I've got another question:

I'm using some data I imported from Arc/Info using Arc's "ungenerate"command. It doesn't appear to have any categories in the imported layer. All I need is to assign a single category to all of the lines in my layer, so I can do some buffering. I'm trying to do this with v.digit, using the "B - Bulk Label Remaining Lines" option, but I'm not having any success. Is this the correct way to do what I want, and if not, can someone give me some advice on what to do?

Thanks,

Doug Gorley | douggorley@shaw.ca

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:42:07PM -0800, douggorley@shaw.ca wrote:

I'm using some data I imported from Arc/Info using Arc's
"ungenerate"command. It doesn't appear to have any categories in the
imported layer. All I need is to assign a single category to all of
the lines in my layer, so I can do some buffering. I'm trying to do
this with v.digit, using the "B - Bulk Label Remaining Lines" option,
but I'm not having any success. Is this the correct way to do what I
want, and if not, can someone give me some advice on what to do?

Yes, AFAIK "ungenerate" data just give you geometry.

See, v.llabel for a bulk line labelling.

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