[Xastir] Xastir on the Raspberry Pi

[Lee Bengston]

If the user is running the lxde desktop in Raspian, all they need to do
is...

sudu  apt-get install gdebi

Then right click on the deb file, and left click "install with Gdebi".  The
Gdebi app will install all dependencies.

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT


- sent from my mobile phone
On Nov 22, 2013 4:13 PM, "John Gorkos" <jgorkos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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