[Xastir] CVS password

[Henk Oegema]

Tom Russo wrote:
> Excellent.  I hope you enjoy using the bleeding edge version of xastir.  I'm
> pretty sure the one that you can download as an Ubuntu package is rather old.
>
> Note, though, that the package version will have installed all sorts of things
> in /usr/share (maps, config files, etc.) and when you ran xastir from the
> package it created a configuration file in ~/.xastir/config that points to
> those locations.  
>
> When you install xastir from source, it'll install into /usr/local, and
> the things that were previously in /usr/share are now in /usr/local/share.
> Your configuration file will be telling xastir to look in the wrong place.
>
> There are two approaches to fixing that.  The no-brainer approach is just
> to remove the file "~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf" and let xastir rebuild it.
> Doing so will require that you re-do all of your customization (call sign,
> station icon, interfaces, etc.), but if you haven't done much of that it's
> the easy way.  
>
> The other approach would be to edit the .xastir/config/xastir.cnf file 
> and replace all the instances of "/usr/share" with "/usr/local/share".  Those
> are going to be in the AUTO_MAP_DIR, ALERT_MAP_DIR, SELECTED_MAP_DIR,
> SYMBOLS_DIR, SOUND_DIR, GNIS_FILE, and GEOCODE_FILE settings.
> More work, but it won't trash your other customizations.
>
>   

I will go for the no(n)-brainer approch. :-D

73,
Henk, ON4HSO