[Xastir] no maps

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Lee Bengston wrote:

> I just installed the Xastir 1.84 (package from repository) on Ubuntu 7.04,
> and I cannot get the online maps to draw.

>       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick library, many formats allowed)
>       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)

That Xastir was compiled to use the libcurl library to fetch the
internet maps.  Make sure you have libcurl installed and working on
that system.  You should be able to test it with the "curl" command
against some file on the internet.

I would have expected to see an error message about not being able
to link Xastir against that library if it were missing though.
Perhaps it's installed but non-functional for some reason?

Check in your ~/.xastir/tmp/ directory for something like map.jpg or
map.gif.  Try using "display" on the file to see if the map image
itself got downloaded ok.  If the file isn't there, then your
libcurl isn't fetching it.  If it's there, then either Xastir or
ImageMagick is doing something funny with it.

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