[Xastir] Sidux 2010-01 Installation Notes

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Tim Billingsley wrote:

> I am  however getting this error
> "xastir: improper image header
> `/home/tim/.xastir/map_cache/map_1277295833.gif' @
> error/gif.c/ReadGIFImage/1033."
>
> I cannot find the specified file on my system anywhere. What is
> generating the error and could it be associated with my problem.

Are you using libcurl?  I ran into a problem with older libcurl
where longer URL's weren't being handled properly.  Upgrade to a
much newer version of libcurl or switch to compiling Xastir with
wget support instead.  That might solve your problem.

You could look at the map_1277295833.gif file above with "xv" or
something...   I suspect it's a text file with an error message in
it, caused by the URL getting chopped by libcurl.

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