[Xastir] Install Problems with CentOS

[Eric Christensen]

Well, I guess I expected it to do... something.  After about five
minutes I get a message saying it timed out.  I'll try it again tonight.

73s,
Eric KF4OTN



Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Eric Christensen wrote:
> 
>> My second problem was with getting the Xastir files from SourceForge.
>> When I used CVS and hit "enter" at the "CVS password" prompt nothing
>> would happen.
> 
> What did you expect to happen?  If I remember correctly it waits a
> while and then writes something into your ~/.cvspass file, then
> exits.  I don't think it tells you anything unless it _can't_
> complete the operation.
> 
> Go on to the next command.  There are only two commands to do total
> to get the sources.
> 
> If the first command hangs and doesn't bring you back to a prompt
> within a reasonable amount of time, it may be that the remote server
> is down or slow, or there's a problem somewhere in-between on the
> network.  Kill it (Control-C) and try again.  If no luck after a few
> tries, wait an hour or a day and try again.
> 
> Once you get that first command done, you'll never have to do it
> again on that machine, as that user.
> 
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