[Xastir] Displaying .geo maps

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:28:08PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Phil <phillor at telstra.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for reading this.
> >
> > I've just rejoined the xastir list after a rest from amateur radio. I have
> > installed xastir version 1.9.2 and although it installed correctly I
> > cannot
> > display .geo maps. This is the error message:
> >
> > Error: File format not supported by XPM library: Australia.geo
> >
> > Configure says that I don't have Xm/XpmI.h. However, xm.h can be found at
> > /usr/include/Xm./xm.h, but not xpmi.h.
> >
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> 
> I'm guessing your issue is motif/lesstif related.  

No, your issue is almost certainly not related to Motif,  --- the error 
message is that your .geo file is using an image format not supported by the 
XPM library and that has nothing to do with Motif. 

The error message you're getting means that you don't have ImageMagick 
development headers installed --- and therefore Xastir isn't actually being
built with *Magick support and is falling back on the XPM library instead.
Your .geo probably references .jpg or .png images, either of which require
Magick.  The XPM library only gives you access to X PixMap format (which 
is almost useless since nobody distributes images in that format).

Your list of installed packages includes ImageMagick, but that's probably just 
the Magick binaries and libraries, not the headers.  The binaries alone won't
let Xastir use image formats that require ImageMagick.

Try installing the development headers for ImageMagick, probably a package
called "imagemagick-dev" or something like that, then reconfigure and build
Xastir.  That should probably get you going.

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