[Xastir] Problem under debian "Etch"

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, William McKeehan wrote:

> Error! can not find color file: /xastir/config/xastir.rgb
>
> Before Xastir was all in /usr/local/share/xastir.
>
> Any pointers on what I should look at to get Xastir up and running again?

xastir.rgb exists in the Xastir sources at
"xastir/config/xastir.rgb"

When you do a "make install" as root, or do "sudo make install" if
you have /etc/sudoers setup up properly, that file and others should
get installed in the default location.  Perhaps a different location
if you're using LSB-Xastir, using MacOSX, or have otherwise told
Xastir to install elsewhere during the "configure" step.

Xastir not finding "xastir.rgb" tells me that one of these might
have occurred:

*) The "make install" step wasn't run, or wasn't run with root
   privileges.
*) Your ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file has some wrong paths in it,
   perhaps from a much earlier install.

Since ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cfg has some important paths saved in
it, check those to see if some of them are pointing to the wrong
place.

The default install location for the file is
/usr/local/share/xastir/config/xastir.rgb

Note that this file is just one of several Xastir will be looking
for.  It's just the _first_ one it is having trouble finding.

Here are a few paths from a known working Xastir setup, installed in
the default location on Linux.  I manually deleted a few lines that
the egrep found that weren't actual paths so-as not to confuse the
matter:

  > egrep "DIR|usr|local" ~/xastir/config/xastir.cnf
  PRINT_PROGRAM:/usr/bin/lpr
  PREVIEWER_PROGRAM:/usr/X11R6/bin/gv
  AUTO_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
  ALERT_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/Counties
  SELECTED_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
  SYMBOLS_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols
  SOUND_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
  GNIS_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.gnis
  GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.geocode

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