[Xastir] Upgrading Xastir?

[hasan schiers]

James,

That is EXACTLY where I ended up. There are so many pitfalls to that first 
setup and successful compile that the task is daunting. After that it looks 
pretty easy. The problem being when one first attempts the compile it is 
virtually certain there are going to be quite a few error messages for 
required packages and missing pieces.

While I appreciate everything people have said,  (very instructional), I 
think I'll wait until a friend who is a Linux guru, can come over and help 
me through the errors that are bound to occur. Anything else looks to me to 
be a disaster waiting to happen.

I'll look at Xastir under Cygwin...although I have 1.7.0 running just fine, 
as well as digi_ned on my existing machine. I also have file and print 
sharing working well. It seems strange that it would be so complicated to 
upgrade Xastir the first time, but I do see what some of the problems are. 
For now, I'll stay with 1.7.0 ...who knows maybe some kind soul will update 
the Linspire CNR site with 1.8.x and then it will be easy again. I'd much 
prefer doing it the standard way (as I don't like being held prisoner), but 
that will have to wait for my buddy KB0JQO to come over for a day and walk 
me through it.

Thanks so muc for your observations. 73

...hasan, N0AN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Ewen" <jewen at shaw.ca>
To: "Xastir APRS" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Upgrading Xastir?


> >I wouldn't recommend CVS to a newbie.
>
> CVS isn't very hard... getting a system configured to allow you to compile
> can be.
>
>
>>> I need VERY detailed instructions like:
>
> Hasan, you have two options... use what you have and be happy with it, or
> get ready to jump in with both feet. I tried doing what you are doing 
> almost
> a year ago. I turned my laptop into a Linux machine. I tried a number of
> different flavours of Linux, and was extremely frustated in the end. If 
> you
> attempt to use an "easy to use" version of linux with a click-n-run 
> system,
> you'll only get what applications the developer has available.
>
> With the fluid nature of Xastir (ie hourly updates) you will be stuck with 
> a
> version that is quite a few revisions back. Most of the ready-to-eat
> versions of Linux don't include the ingredients needed to make your own
> programs from scratch. You need to have a bunch of things like specific
> libraries and also a compiler. These are all available, but it can be a 
> task
> gathering everything and getting it working.
>
> However, if you do succeed in getting that all together and working, 
> keeping
> Xastir up to date is a snap. Xastir has a file that you call that does it
> all for you. You just need to get things in place and working before you 
> can
> do that.
>
> BTW, for your info I am back to running Xastir under Cygwin. The
> instructions for Cygwin a absolutely perfect. Any idiot can follow them 
> and
> get things running. I'm living proof!
>
> James
> VE6SRV
>
>
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