[Xastir] Maps

[Lee Bengston]

I would use the instructions at
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.10
I haven't checked, but my guess is that Mint 15 is equivalent to Ubuntu
13.04, and the Ubuntu 12.10 instructions should be very close if not
exactly right.  I would search for the packages using synaptic rather than
using apt-get as the instructions say - just in case any packages have
changed to newer versions.  If any have changed I would expect only one or
two at most.  The current Berkely libdb package is one that comes to mind
that may be newer than what is called out in the instructions.

This will also get you the very latest version - newer than the tarball.

Regards,
Lee - K5DAT


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Michael Gregory <
michael.gregory at verizon.net> wrote:

>
>         Tom,
>
>   I went to the xastir wiki and got directions for building from a
> tarball. I searched for the latest "stable release, and found version
> 2.0.4. I executed the instructions from the wiki by copying and pasting the
> terminal commands from the wiki to my terminal. FAIL!!!!
>
>   The instructions are classic linux instructions, worthless frustrating
> and a waste of time and effort. The mint package installed version,
> (2.0.0), works flawlessly as soon as the user figures out that the
> information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is
> totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become
> available in the  map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long
> as they are of a limited set of vector graphics. It remains to be seen
> whether raster graphics will work because they require no only the raster
> graphics, (.png, .gif, .tif, .jpg…) files, but an accompanying text file
> with reference information so that the xastir app or its sub components can
> parse the placement of objects on the graphic background. I am having
> considerable difficulty finding raster files that come with the associated
> text file and have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to create
> them my self. Not difficult just not easy either. It seems that
> repositories of this kid of data are scarce.
>
> 73
> KB3IYQ
>
> Michael Gregory
> michael.gregory at verizon.net
>
>
>
> On 2013-10-21, at 11:46 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 07:45:34PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <michael.gregory at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
> >>
> >>  I removed Xastir completely. Both by telling my package manager to
> removeit, and then by manually going to all of the directory locations
> ~/... and user share?. and manually deleting all of the files. I them
> re-installed it by having the package manager re-install.
> >
> > Which version is your package manager installing?  Which distro, and what
> > does "Help->About" say about libraries compiled in.
> >
> > Many distros are notorious for having ancient versions of xastir in their
> > package management systems.
> >
> > We also cannot be sure what compilation options were used when the
> package
> > was built.  Remember that packages supplied by the distro are *not*
> created
> > by the xastir project --- some volunteer generated the package for the
> > distro, and that person may not even be an xastir user.
> >
> > To be really sure you get what you want out of xastir, it might be
> necessary
> > for you to build it from source with the options you really want.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux
> http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236
> http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
> [n-z][a-m]
> >
> >
> >
> >
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