[Xastir] Maps

[David A Aitcheson]

Lee & all,

Synaptic is just a GUI for apt-get. They both do the same thing just one
requires more reading, thinking and typing.

With Mint_15 being based on Ububntu_13.04-RaringRingtail the
instructions at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.10 would be
the best bet unless someone else has done a Wiki update.

The _/*OTHER*/_ _/*MAJOR*/_ _/*CHANGE*/_ is the DEATH of the MEDIBUNTU
Project. See http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2469 for details related to
Linux_Mint_**. Ubuntu has related information at
http://www.medibuntu.org/ and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu - granted this may not apply
to many (if any) Xastir users, but at least you are aware of it.

73
Dave
KB3EFS

On 10/22/2013 10:51 AM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> 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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