[Xastir] Deb distro with Mepis 11 ?

[Tony Hunt]

Many thanks for your sugestions Tom, Curt, Scott and Steve . I may go with 
the CVS idea in the end but for now I have run out of time. It would be a 
great exercise to play with while on holiday but the broadband access will 
not be available. The 3G internet is too expensive to go downloading that 
much stuff as well .

So for now I am going to go with the v1.94 from the repositries because its 
quick and easy. Theres still too much to get done in other areas so it will 
have to suffice. I have quickly converted the problem JPG maps to Gifs and 
worked around the quantum depth issue. Also BMP maps seem to work fine so as 
far as I know its just JPGs but I have not got any PNGs to try.

Happy holiday

Tony Hunt VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:07:53 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> To: Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net>
> Cc: Xastir mailing list <xastir at xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Deb distro with Mepis 11 ?
> Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012291002440.24569 at wapiti.we7u.net>
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Tony Hunt wrote:
>
>> When are we going to get free from these cursed black maps in
>> debian distros ? The problem has been there now for over 2 years.
>
> The Xastir project doesn't do packaging of binaries.  We only
> release source code.  It's up to the maintainers of the binary
> packages for Debian to update those.
>
>
>> Any quick fix ideas for this one ? I have not got alot of time to play 
>> about unfortunately.
>> Ive installed xastir 1.94 from the repositries but unfortunately
>> it still suffers from the black maps magic/motif problem in that
>> release . I can make it work by converting the culprit jpg map
>> files to gifs if I have to. Of course having v1.99 and OSM is
>> something that would be really amazing also.
>
> 1.9.4 is very old.  1.9.9 is also old.  You want 2.0.0 (most recent
> stable release) or 2.0.1 (latest CVS sources).
>
> I always install from sources, plus don't use any of the
> distributions you're talking about, so can't help you directly (I
> use OpenSuSE mostly).
>
> Peruse the Xastir Wiki pages and ask specific questions on this
> mailing list if you have trouble:  You should be able to do your own
> compile from sources fairly quickly.  After that you'll have
> divorced yourself from dependence on the Debian package maintainers
> and can always keep up with the latest.
>
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>