[Xastir] Need info

[Erik Jakobsen]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
>
>   
>> I have made the .cvsrc in my /home/user directory. I made it as root. Is
>> that ok ?.
>>     
>
> Change owner/group on that file to the regular user credentials.
> That way you can change the contents of the file later without
> having to be root.
>
>
>   
>> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir login
>> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir co -r STABLE xastir
>>
>> It installed xastir. Should it be done as root ?.
>>     
>
> No, you did fine.  All you're doing there is (first line) adding an
> entry to your ~/.cvspass file, and (second line) snagging the
> sources to some build directory of your choice.  All would normally
> be done as a regular (non-root) user.
>
>
>   
>> cd xastir
>>    cvs update
>>    ./bootstrap.sh
>>    ./configure
>>    (make clean;make -j3 2>&1) | tee make.log
>> -->> Until here I think it should be done as user  ????
>>    sudo make install
>>    sudo chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir (only needed if using kernel AX.25)
>>    xastir
>>     
>
> You're correct about everything before the "sudo" commands being run
> as a regular user.  The "sudo" command allows you to run those two
> commands as the root user without having to actually do an "su"
> manually, but of course you have to have sudo installed and set up
> the "/etc/sudoers" file before this will work for you.
>
> Of course it's probably easier if you have "sudo" set up to just do
> this instead:
>
>     cd xastir
>     ./update-xastir
>     sudo chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir (if you need suid root
>         privilege to access AX.25 interfaces)
>
> Below is the manual procedure corresponding to the multiple commands
> you listed, for those that haven't set up "sudo" on their systems:
>
>     cd xastir
>     cvs update
>     ./bootstrap.sh
>     ./configure
>     (make clean;make -j3 2>&1) | tee make.log
>     su
>     make install
>     chmod 4755
>     exit (from root
>     xastir
>
>
> --
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>
>   
Tnx so much Curt. I have it running now, and installed.
In which directory is the inf2geo.pl placed ?

Erik OZ4KK

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Erik Jakobsen
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