[Xastir] Raspberry Pi

[Javier Henderson]

Ray,

If the goal is to have a remotely located digi/igate, headless, maybe aprx would be a better choice?

I'm running K4JH-1 with aprx on an RPi, and it's been flawless for a couple of weeks now.

73,
-jav k4jh

On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:31 PM, Ray Wells <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm making progress towards a working RPi for an igate but have struck a snag compiling xastir.
> 
> I'm using the latest Debian Wheezy kernel - 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian.img - and have compiled libax25, ax25apps & ax25tools. The stumbling block with xastir is dependency conflicts between libgeotiff2-dev and both imagemagick and graphicsmagick. I can have one or the other but not both. The conflict is well documented but, thus far, I have not found a solution.
> 
> Given that the igate will be located in a position remote from the house and will be headless I could ignore the problem but, I'd like to resolve it for my own satisfaction and to help others. For that last reason I have sent this enquiry here rather than directly to n1mjf who has already had xastir working on the RPi. Perhaps n1mjf would like to dip in and provide a bit of detail.
> 
> FWIW, what is working with the RPi so far, and it happily boots reliably, is a 4 port usb/rs232 ftdi adaptor (thanks Jason) and a tp-link tl-wn721n usb wifi adaptor. I'm using wicd to configure networking. Just xastir left to sort <grin>
> 
> BTW(1), if contemplating a lot of development tools and such on the RPi, use a minimum 8GB SD card. I filled the 4G I started with.
> 
> BTW(2), the Soundblaster usb that is supposed to work OOTB did work with the RPi but locked the system on boot. There's a lot to be said for real KISS TNCs for packet.