[Xastir] Xastir on the Raspberry Pi

Lee Bengston lee.bengston at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 18:22:16 EST 2013


Ouch I meant sudo not such.


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On Nov 22, 2013 6:20 PM, "Lee Bengston" <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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> 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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