[Xastir] Bitmap not found? /usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2.xbm

[Henk Oegema]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:14:49PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <on4hso at amsat.org> flavor, containing:
>   
>> Tom Russo wrote:
>>     
>>> config file is still telling it to look in /usr/share instead of
>>> /usr/local/share (the error message above references /usr/share).
>>> Check your .xastir/config/xastir.cnf file, especially the 
>>> SYMBOLS_DIR setting.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I am nearly there !
>> Xastir will start now.
>>
>> I moved all the maps from /usr/share/xastir/maps to
>> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps
>>
>> But there is still a small problem.
>> There still seems to be a *reference somewhere to /usr/share/xastir/maps.*
>> I can't find it in .xastir/config/xastir.cnf (every instance of
>> /usr/share/ was changed to /usr/local/share/
>>
>> error message in the CLI screen is:
>> 2 File /usr/share/xastir/maps/bignl.gif could not be read
>>
>> (when I copy all the files from /usr/local/share/xastir/maps back to
>> /usr/share/xastir/maps then it works again.)
>>     
>
> Sounds like you're still running the binary from the Adept install, which 
> would be in /usr/bin rather than in /usr/local/bin, and which would still be 
> looking for things in /usr/share.  Please try this in a terminal window:
>
>  type -a xastir
>
> If the only thing that shows up is /usr/local/bin/xastir there's another 
> problem, but if you find both /usr/bin/xastir and /usr/local/bin/xatstir (or 
> even just /usr/bin/xastir) your deinstallation of the older version didn't 
> take.
>
> You might still need to do something to complete the deinstallation of the
> package-installed version.  If Adept won't do it for you, it might work by
> doing 
>   apt-get remove xastir
>
>
>   
~$type -a xastir
xastir is /usr/local/bin/xastir

~$sudo apt-get remove xastir
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Package is not installed, so not removed.
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