[Xastir] March Xastir-Hardy VM

[Lee Bengston]

Hi all,

Regarding the March 2009 version of the Ubuntu/Hardy Virtual Machine,
it appears that back in March Tom updated the one I originally built
in 2008 - updated both Ubuntu and Xastir.  So the original
installation of proj and geotiff would have been done by me.  Although
I do recall accidentally doing the make (and possibly the configure)
in root mode, which required a permissions fix, I'm very certain I
installed the libraries using the Installation notes in the Wiki for
Ubuntu 8.04, which is the way have always done it in the Ubuntu
flavors.  The live CD's I've distributed more recently using Ubuntu
9.04 are also done the same way.

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:35:14 -0700
Subject: Re: [Xastir] problems with Xastir-Hardy VM and vmware tools?
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:22:23AM -0700, we recorded a
bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor,
containing:
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:11:57AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I grabbed Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip, and ran the vmware-tools-config
> > > script in order to resize the display for a wide screen laptop.  It
> > > wanted to build kernel modules, I let it.  Now xastir keeps bombing on
> > > me.  Sorry, I don't have the error.  (bad user! no biscuit.)
> >
> > On Hardy in the summer of '08, I recall that out of the box, VMware
> > Tools wouldn't compile properly without modification using open vmware
> > tools as instructed at
> > http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html.
> >  Tom Russo used the above method to get VMware Tools from his VMware
> > Workstation to work in the Hardy virtual machine.
>
>
> I am now running the updates to the system, and will check that it continues
> to work with the latest kernel.  If it does, I'll bundle up the new VM and
> pass it off to someone who cares to distribute it.

Turns out that with the latest vmware workstation, latest vmware tools, and
latest Xubuntu Hardy updates, everything works Just Fine.  I'm disinclined to
even try to do an Intrepid, since I don't use Intrepid on my Ubuntu machines
and am sticking with the Hardy LTS for a few years.

I am now cloning my Hardy Xubuntu VM and will clean it up for distribution.  I
have updated all packages and Xastir, so it should all be good for a few more
months.

I can pass off one copy to someone for redistribution in a couple hours after
I've given it a bit more shakedown.

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