[Xastir] Xastir-Xubuntu Live CD/USB in Parallels on Mac
Lee Bengston
lee.bengston at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 01:29:06 EDT 2009
Cool that you chose #2 because now the subject of this thread matches
up with what you did. :-)
Maps go in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps
Lee-K5DAT
Murphy, TX
On 3/26/09, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I chose door number 2 and loaded xubuntu as another virtual machine.
> Everything went great, and I have wonderful looking maps. I just wish
> I could have gotten the whole thing working directly on my Mac as I
> did before I tried to fix things. Lesson learned don't try to fix
> anything.
>
> But that does beg the question, where do I put local maps, what
> directory? I'll move them from my Mac to the xubuntu environment and
> not have to re-download them.
>
> Thanks guys for all your time and sticking with me to the bitter end.
>
> 73's
> WA0TJT-1 -- on APRS
>
> On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> At least it all makes sense now. It appears you have two choices.
>>
>> 1) Follow the instructions at the link below including the part
>> labeled "if you already installed the binary version", which will
>> remove the Xastir 1.92 binary from your existing Ubuntu virtual
>> machine under Parallels and install the latests version of Xastir from
>> source.
>> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_8.10
>>
>> 2) Use the new iso image that you recently downloaded and install
>> Xubuntu under Parallels, i.e. create another virtual machine. Xastir
>> is already there, so you won't have to install Xastir in that case.
>> The problem with this option (for me anyway) is that I don't have a
>> Mac, so I am not able to tell you how to do it, although it may
>> actually be easier than #1 above.
>>
>> Lee - K5DAT
>> Murphy, TX
>>
>> On 3/25/09, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Oh Boy!
>>> Here I sit red faced...
>>> I'm very embarrassed.
>>>
>>> After downloading the .iso file from the web site and not really
>>> knowing what I was suppose to do I opened a terminal window and typed
>>> in xastir. Xastir came up, this is where the real brain fart comes
>>> in,
>>> the .iso image is still sitting on the desk top so obviously it's not
>>> contributing to this run.
>>>
>>> Apparently Xastir v 1.9.2 was already install when I loaded Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> So what I want to do now is install from the .iso image (version
>>> 1.9.5) but I'm back to the start... I don't know what to do to
>>> install
>>> it. Maybe it would be easier to just download it from sourceforge and
>>> start from that, I actually know how to do that.
>>>
>>> I feel like I've wasted all your time, I so apologize.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to recompile Xastir so that it will actually use
>>>> ImageMagick:
>>>>
>>>> ./configure
>>>> make
>>>> make install
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This seemed to work to get ImageMagick loaded but Xastir still
>>>>> won't display maps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could I just have some setting in the maps menu set up wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Larry Shields wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Keith Kaiser wrote:
>>>>>>> Seems there is always one more complication;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I do the 'sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev' I get the
>>>>>>> following;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Media change: please insert the disk labeled
>>>>>>> 'Xubuntu 8.10 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20081030.3)'
>>>>>>> in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem is what I have is the .iso file not a CD.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now what?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/25/09, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hmmmm, not sure... seems like it should be simple enough to
>>>>>>>>> install,
>>>>>>>>> but I don't know how.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It's hard to understand how imagemagick is not installed. I'm
>>>>>>>>>> running
>>>>>>>>>> that Xubuntu image live now, and I get the following:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l |grep imagemagick
>>>>>>>>>> ii imagemagick
>>>>>>>>>> 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3
>>>>>>>>>> image manipulation programs
>>>>>>>>>> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l |grep libmagick
>>>>>>>>>> ii libmagick10
>>>>>>>>>> 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3
>>>>>>>>>> image manipulation library
>>>>>>>>>> ii libmagick9-dev
>>>>>>>>>> 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3
>>>>>>>>>> image manipulation library - development files
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Lee - K5DAT
>>>>>>>>>> Murphy, TX
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 3/25/09, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Looks like neither on is installed.
>>>>>>>>>>> Is there a simple way to install them? Or which one?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, you have both of them installed, so there must be
>>>>>>>>>>>> another
>>>>>>>>>>>> problem. Do you have either ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick
>>>>>>>>>>>> (probably
>>>>>>>>>>>> the -dev packages, as well) installed?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Bob, N7XY
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> OK, it looks like both are installed. Here is what I get
>>>>>>>>>>>>> when I do
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the entries;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ii wget 1.11.4-lubuntul
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ii libcurl3 7.18.2-lubuntu4.3
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Does that sound correct?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You can search for them in Synaptic or issue the following
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> commands in a terminal:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dpkg -l |grep wget
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dpkg -l |grep libcurl
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes I can get to the Internet without any problems. As to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wget or libcurl question I don't know. I downloaded
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the .iso file
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and installed it, other than that I didn't do anything
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> special.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How could I know if wget or libcurl was installed?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> how is the parallels network config? Can the VM get
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> out at
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And do you have "wget" or "libcurl" installed, whichever
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> version of Xastir is compiled to use?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. -
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WE7U.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coordinate
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system!"
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 73's
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Keith Kaiser
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 73's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Keith Kaiser
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 73's
>>>>>>>>>>> Keith Kaiser
>>>>>>>>>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 73's
>>>>>>>>> Keith Kaiser
>>>>>>>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> 73's
>>>>>>> Keith Kaiser
>>>>>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>> To fix your problem, click on the System menu > adminstration >
>>>>>> software sources, when the sources screen pop's up, un-check where
>>>>>> is says installable from CD-ROM/DVD...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It will then not ask you for the cd...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope this helps...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Larry
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>> Reg# Linux User 484593
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> 73's
>>>>> Keith Kaiser
>>>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> 73's
>>> Keith Kaiser
>>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
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> 73's
> Keith Kaiser
> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>
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