[Xastir] no maps

[Lee Bengston]

Thanks for quick reply!  I checked ~.xastir/tmp/ and there were no files in
there, so it appears nothing is being fetched.  I tried reinstalling
libcurl.  I am not familiar with libcurl - what is the syntax for using the
"curl" command to test it out?

Regards,
Lee - K5DAT


On 5/27/07, Curt Mills <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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