[Xastir] Setting up on RH 9

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

You also need the shapelib stuff.  And sequence of installation of the 
tarballs is important.

If memory serves me (real questionable after the last month on the 
road), Alan has working RPMs of everything at the current release level. 
  From that point, you could do a tarball update of the ImageMagick 
stuff (which is a moving target most of the time), and the GDAL, 
Proj-4/Proj-NAD, and Shapelib stuff with somedegree of impunity, simply 
making sure you installed it in/over where the RPMs had placed stuff.

If I sound like I'm spouting nonsense, then please ask for more 
detail... I'm doing the best I can right now, but my fingers are now 
more familiar with the installation process than my brain, so I'm having 
to dredge up the process from the recesses of an overworked memory.

In general terms, what I'd do is:
RH 9 install
Make sure LessTif is installed
uninstall the ImageMagick RPM and its development RPM
Install the ImageMagick tarball
Install the Proj stuff according to their directions (add Proj-NAD 
appropriately) (remotesensing.org)
Install LibShp per the directions at remotesensing.org...
Snag from CVS, rebuild.

Curt, correct me if this is out of sequence.  I went looking and this 
stuff had been pulled from the README.  I think this is a problemmatic 
omission...

73, gerry


Gale Wilkinson wrote:
> Since I had problems my firts time around, I thought I would as those of 
> you  who have successfully installed Xastir on your RH 9 system to let 
> me know exactly what you did/didn't do to get it up and running.  My 
> first time I tried following the generic Linux install documents and ran 
> into probems.  So, using a clean File Server install of RH 9, what 
> packages did you actually have to make/install to get it up and working 
> ?  I pretty much went out and got all of the tarballs listed in the 
> install docs the first time around but must have got a wrong version 
> somewhere as it gave me major problems when I actually started Xastir.  
> No problems with the make/installs (other than one dependency problem 
> which was an easy fix) and the final build of Xastir.
> 
> IF I am reading what appears to be installed as the basic RH install if 
> looks like I need libproj, proj-nad and ImageMagick to get it up and 
> running.  I included Image Magick as the first time around xastir 
> refused to see the ImageMagick that  RH installed.  One tarball later 
> and that problem went away.
> 
> I did go through all of the steps in the docs inluding the ld.so.conf 
> changes.
> 
>   Thanks for any help you can give this relative newbie (when it come to 
> making and installing highly interdependent like these).
> 
>     Gale
> 
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