[Xastir] Deb package for Ubuntu 10.04

[Jerry Dunmire]

Are you using the .osm maps? If so, I'm not surprised. I'm working on
fixes for a number of zooming and scaling problems with OSM maps. Try
the .geo versions before reporting any problems.

73,
...jerry
KA6HLD


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:51 PM, David Aitcheson
<david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lee,
>
> We may have a problem...
>
> When I click on the directional arrows above the map, it also zooms out.
>
> The question is... is it Xastir... or... is it X?
>
> I need to do a CVS upsate on the other system to see where the problem may be.
>
> 73
> Dave
> KB3EFS
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Jon K Hellan <hellan at acm.org> wrote:
>>> Here's how you can - usually - build a deb package of a more recent version of a program when there
>>> already is an official package. The recipe works on Debian, Ubuntu and other like minded Linux
>>> distributions. All commands should be entered from a shell.
>>>
>>> 1. Get the essential tools for building packages:
>>>  sudo apt-get install build-essential
>>>
>>> 2. Install headers and tools needed for building your package:
>>>
>>>  sudo apt-get build-dep xastir
>>>
>>> 3. Download the source to the official package. cd to a suitable place and:
>>>
>>>  apt-get source xastir
>>>
>>> the source will end up in the directory xastir-<version>, e.g. xastir-1.9.4, below your current
>>> location
>>>
>>> 4. cd to a suitable place. Check out the current version of the source from CVS, or download and
>>> unpack the tar file with the version you want.
>>>
>>> 5. cd into the source directory. Copy the 'debian' directory from the package source into your source
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>   cp -rp <packagesourcdir>/debian/* debian
>>>
>>> 6. Edit the version number at the top of the file debian/changelog. E.g change
>>>
>>> xastir (1.9.4-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> xastir (1.9.9-1local) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>> 7. Build the package using the command
>>>
>>>  dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>>>
>>> If the source hasn't changed too much since it was packaged for Ubuntu/Debian, this will result
>>> in a .deb file in the directory above the source directory.
>>>
>>> If you want to enable other options than Ubuntu does, they run 'configure' from the file
>>> 'debian/rules'. You can change the arguments there, but remember to install the libraries
>>> *and* the -dev packages with header files.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Jon LA4RT
>>
>> I followed the HowTo at the following link:
>>
>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/
>>
>> It's somewhat more complex with Xastir than creating a binary package
>> for a simple shell script as was done in the example, but I still used
>> the same procedure.  Anyway, the binary works for me, and it worked
>> for David A., which is the only feedback I have seen so far.  Thanks
>> for the tip on naming it version 1.9.9-1local.  I wasn't sure exactly
>> how to name it, so I simply used 1.99-1.0.
>>
>> The 1.99 binary is posted at
>> www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir-lucid-i386-2010-06-22.deb
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lee - K5DAT
>> Murphy, TX
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