[Xastir] Xastir on the Raspberry Pi

[John Gorkos]

There is a current raspberry pi build of Xastir CVS (as of this morning)
on the Aprs-alert server.
Here¹s how it¹s configured:
xastir 2.0.5 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

MINIMUM OPTIONS:
  ShapeLib (Vector maps) ................. : yes

RECOMMENDED OPTIONS:
  GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : yes (GraphicsMagick)
  pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : yes
  dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : yes
  rtree indexing (Shapefile speedups) .... : yes
  map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : yes
  internet map retrieval ................. : yes (libcurl)

FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:
  AX25 (Linux Kernel I/O Drivers) ........ : yes
  libproj (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : yes
  GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
  Festival (Text-to-speech) .............. : no
  GDAL/OGR (Obtuse map formats) .......... : yes
  GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) ....... : yes

xastir will be installed in /usr/bin.



Here¹s the sequence of events to get it installed:

wget http://www.aprs-alert.net/xastir/xastir_2.0.5-snapshot_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i xastir_2.0.5-snapshot_armhf.deb
sudo apt-get -fy install


The last apt-get installs the dependencies.  In cast you get sideways,
you¹ll need the following dependencies:
 libgdal1
 libgraphicsmagick3
 libshp1
 libax25
 libcurl3
 libpcre3
 libdb5.1
 libgeos-c1
 gpsman
 gpsmanshp

Getting geotiff to work on the Pi requires a Doctorate in Black
Witchcraft.  I believe you have to do the entire build on a machine
sitting in center of a pentagram drawn in goat¹s blood, under a full moon
on the third Tuesday of the month, while waving a dead chicken on the end
of an ethernet cord.  I¹m fresh out of chickens, so you get what you get.

That SHOULD do it.  I can¹t test on a raspi, so I¹m testing on a beagle
bone black (I did the BUILD on a raspi, but it¹s headless right now) (all
three of my Pi boards are in ³production² right now).  The BBB is actually
an ARM7 processor, but it¹s close enough, and they¹re both running Debian
at the bottom of the stack.
If you have problems, post them here.


John Gorkos
AB0OO

On 11/21/13, 9:16 PM, "Max Harper" <kg4pid at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Well, I really though I could install a handfull of librarys and be good
>to go. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. If anyone ever post
>a How To for the Pi, I'll be all over it. But for now I'm crying Uncle as
>I have no idea what I'm doing. This is way above my pay grade.
> 
>Thanks guys for all the help. Max KG4PID
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