[Xastir] Setup.

[Erik Jakobsen]

Hi Brian.

Brian D Heaton wrote:
> Erik,
> 
> 	First off I think you'll need to use the file "inf2geo.pl" in the
> "scripts" directory to convert the ".inf" files associated with your
> Ui-View maps to something Xastir can work with.

Ok, I'll see if I have the file, and then install it.

I have just googled the file, but I cannot find it. Can you tell me 
where I can get it ?

> 	Second, do you have the Imagemagick-devel package installed?  For each
> of the packages you install under RedHat (in most cases) you'll need the
> companion "-devel-" package.  The "-devel-" packages contain the
> required header files to compile new software which uses the functions
> exported by the libraries of the other packages.

Yes I have: # rpm -q ImageMagick-devel
ImageMagick-devel-5.5.4-28

# rpm -q ImageMagick
ImageMagick-5.5.4-103

Thanks for the inforamtion on why ther devel packages are necessary.

I'm not running Redhat. I use SuSE 8.2.

> 	Did you follow the INSTALL file step-by-step to make sure you have all
> the packages loaded up?  I know that you can get tripped up pretty
> easily by installing libgeotiff before libproj.  

Yes I did. But not the all the mentioned in the "Short summary of 
libraries Xastir can use".

I have this installed:

# rpm -q tiff
tiff-3.5.7-204


> 			THX/BDH
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 01:46, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> 
>>Brian D Heaton wrote:
>>
>>>Erik,
>>>
>>>	When you say "server address" I'm guessing you mean an address of a
>>>server for the APRS-IS (TCP/IP stream on the Internet).  You do this
>>>from the Interfaces menu item.  You will need to add an "Internet
>>>Server" interface.  When you do that you can fill in the server name
>>>there.
>>
>>Yes that's correct Brian. I got it, and think I'm connected. But I have 
>>some troubles getting my maps to be shown. I have some from my UI-View32.
>>
>>Can I use them ?.
>>
>>I have placed them as such:
>>
>>lajka2://usr/local/share/xastir/maps # ls -l
>>total 444
>>drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          392 Jan 19 07:12 .
>>drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root          264 Jan 19 05:57 ..
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        33190 Jan 26  2000 Aalborg.gif
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           48 Jan  8  2000 Aalborg.inf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       159691 Jan 14  2000 Danmark.gif
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           68 Jan 14  2000 Danmark.inf
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           80 Jan 19 05:57 GPS
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           68 Nov 30 20:01 SCANDI-S1.INF
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           85 Jan 19 05:57 placeholder
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       226815 Nov 16  2001 scandi-s1.gif
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           13 Jan 19 05:57 terraserver.geo
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           10 Jan 19 05:57 tigermap.geo
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           12 Jan 19 05:57 toposerver.geo
>>
>>Are the format of the map files not correct ?.
>>
>>Logfile:
>>
>>
>>~/src/xastir/xastir-1.2.1> xastir
>>
>>
>>Built-in map types:
>>       gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>>        map   APRSdos Maps
>>        map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>>        pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
>>
>>Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>>        geo   URL (Internet maps via wget)
>>        xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
>>Couldn't open file: /home/erik/.xastir/config/locations.sys
>>Couldn't open file: /home/erik/.xastir/data/locations_db.dat-ptr
>>Couldn't open file: /home/erik/.xastir/data/locations_db.dat
>>*** Skipping '/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/toposerver.geo', IMAGESIZE 
>>tag missing or incorrect. ***
>>Perhaps no XPM or ImageMagick library support is installed?
>>*** Skipping '/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/terraserver.geo', IMAGESIZE 
>>tag missing or incorrect. ***
>>Perhaps no XPM or ImageMagick library support is installed?
>>Couldn't open file: /home/erik/.xastir/config/locations.sys
>>Couldn't open file: /home/erik/.xastir/data/locations_db.dat-ptr
>>Couldn't open file: /home/erik/.xastir/data/locations_db.dat
>>
>>ImageMagick is installed:
>>
>># rpm -q ImageMagick
>>ImageMagick-5.5.4-103
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>			73/N5VFF
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 00:56, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Matt Werner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Hi.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have downloaded the most new Xastir. I made a directory 
>>>>>>~./home/erik/src/xastir. Her I placed the downloaded xastir package.
>>>>>>All soo far has been made as user. How can I unpack the package as user ?.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>ls -al /home/erik/src/xastir/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>totalt 272
>>>>>>drwxr-xr-x    2 erik     users          96 2004-01-18 14:36 .
>>>>>>drwxr-xr-x    3 erik     users          72 2004-01-18 14:36 ..
>>>>>>-rw-------    1 erik     users      275542 2004-01-18 14:36 
>>>>>>xastir121-2004-Jan-15.tgz
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>When you are logged in as the user, do a:
>>>>>
>>>>>tar -zxvf xastir121-2004-Jan-15.tgz
>>>>>
>>>>>>From there you should be able to cd to the xastir-1.2.1 directory, then view
>>>>>the README files.
>>>>
>>>>I got rid of the errors by installing the ImageMagic.
>>>>
>>>>Still I cannot find the place to put in the server address ?.
>>>>
>>>>Does this look ok ?:
>>>>
>>>>~/src/xastir/xastir-1.2.1> xastir
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Built-in map types:
>>>>      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>>>>       map   APRSdos Maps
>>>>       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>>>>       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
>>>>
>>>>Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>>>>       geo   URL (Internet maps via wget)
>>>>       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>73 - Matt
>>>>>KB0KQA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> 

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