[Xastir] Crash and Restore

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Darryl Gibson wrote:

> Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> > Sounds to me like it's time for a Gentoo install.  After a couple of days on
> > autopilot you'll be ready to go.
> 
> Well, if Gentoo would send me professionally packaged CDs, for free, I'd go
> for it.
> 
> But AFAIK, only Ubuntu is doing that.
> 
> My primary goal is to propagate linux, as a ham, xastir is a learning tool.
> 
> Xastir is a tough course!

Certainly, for some.  There are at least three projects going on
right now that may make it much easier for some... Perhaps other
projects as well that I forgot about, but here are the three I can
think of off the top of my head:

*) VMWare Player install of Xastir/Linux
*) VirtualPC install of Xastir/Linux
*) LSB-Xastir binary install (Linux Standard Base compliant)

I'm working on that last one.  I just found a segfault bug but the
bug is in my standard (non-LSB) Xastir as well so it's not
LSB-specific.  I'm trying to figure out a fix for that one now.

Once the LSB-Xastir is packaged up in an RPM file, it'll be this
easy to install Xastir on any LSB-3.0 compliant Linux system:

    rpm -U lsb-xastir-1.8.5.rpm

Then run it like this:

    /opt/lsb-xastir/bin/xastir &

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