[Xastir] Raspberry Pi

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:01:55PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <javier at kjsl.org> flavor, containing:
> Ray,
> 
> If the goal is to have a remotely located digi/igate, headless, maybe aprx would be a better choice?

Indeed, Xastir is not the ideal choice for an IGate, much less a remotely
located headless one.  Xastir can do some of the IGate heavy lifting, but is 
not as complete an IGate implementation as some others.  Xastir's main strength
is its graphical client and mapping capability, and one would be better
using something that is less user-interface heavy.

I personally prefer to use javAPRSSrvr because of its close link to the
APRS-IS backbone.

I run javAPRSSrvr on my SheevaPlug.  I understand that lots of folks dislike
it since it's not open-sourced, but honestly I don't care as long as it's
free and is well-maintained.  Since all the APRS-IS infrastructure uses it,
that's good enough for me.  

But that's a matter of taste, so long as one uses a program that is 
well-maintained and kept up-to-date with APRS-IS standards.  

As for the geotiff/magick conflict, I have not heard of this before --- there
is no such conflict on other Debian-based systems I've used (e.g. Ubuntu and 
Debian Squeeze).  Where is this "well documented?"  How widespread is that 
conflict across distributions/versions?

One could, of course, always build libgeotiff from sources and install them
in a location that does NOT conflict with Magick at all, if the packaging
is so broken...

But back to Javier's comment -- why bother with any image rendering stuff if
this is a headless machine?

> 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.

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