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

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:54:00PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <on4hso at amsat.org> flavor, containing:
> 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
> >
> > 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
> ................................
> Package is not installed, so not removed.
> ................................

That's mighty peculiar.  Did you build xastir exactly according to the wiki
instructions?  If so, it shouldn't be looking in /usr/share for anything
unless there are lingering configuration issues from the prior binary 
install.  Did you try removing ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf?    If so, xastir 
should have rebuilt it with no references to /usr/share at all.

Do you by any chance have any symbolic links in your maps directory?   If so,
perhaps something there is pointing to /usr/share directly.

Other than that, I can't think of any reason why xastir should continue to 
look in /usr/share for anything after doing a source build/install, unless you 
added a "--prefix=/usr" or something like that to the configure line.

If you can't find any such cause, I'd suggest doing a "make uninstall" from 
wherever you built xastir, doing an "mv ~/.xastir ~/.xastir_old", then doing a 
complete "make distclean" and trying the build/install again, starting from
the "bootstrap.sh" step.  It sounds like something is confused somewhere, and 
it might be necessary for you to clean out all old remnants of the previous 
install.

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