[Xastir] Help needed--installing xastir 2.0

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:18:40PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kellyboswell at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> Hi gang;
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> I was upgrading to Xastir 2.0. following the instructions at the wiki (xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.04) .? But, I did something wrong.? 
> ?
> When type XASTIR in the terminal, I get the following:
> XReadBitmapFile( ) failed: Bitmap not found?? /usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2xbm
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> What did I do?
> ?
> Can someone guide me?through correcting my problem?? Offline will be fine.
> ?

We prefer to do on-line answers here, so that everyone benefits from the 
answers.

Are you upgrading from a prior binary install?

Here's why I ask:  Linux package managers like to put all installed stuff into
/usr (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share, etc.).  But when you build from source,
the default behavior is to put things in /usr/local (/usr/local/bin, 
/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/share).

When you first install Xastir from a binary package and run it, all of your
config files (in ~/.xastir/config) get set up to look for support files in
/usr/share/xastir.  If you then do an upgrade to a later version from source,
the files that the old package had in /usr/share are now in /usr/local/share.

The best way to fix this issue is to edit your ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf
file in your normal text editor of choice and change all references to 
"/usr/share" to "/usr/local/share".  The error message you are getting will
go away.

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