[Xastir] Trouble installing Xastir in Wheezy on Beaglebone Black

[Jason Rausch]

Brett,

I found your older message in my searching, but I'm not running Ubuntu and also your message didn't really contain any steps/commands on how you did it, so I was lost.  I'm still Linux stupid and trying to learn as I go.
 
Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


________________________________
 From: Brett Friermood <brett.friermood at gmail.com>
To: Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com>; Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Trouble installing Xastir in Wheezy on Beaglebone Black
 

Here is a message I sent to the group last fall when I got it working
which may be helpful. I also echo the suggestion to install from
source.

Brett


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brett Friermood <brett.friermood at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:10 PM
Subject: XASTIR now on BeagleBone Black
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>


Howdy all,

I don't recall if there have been any questions about doing it, but I
have successfully install XASTIR on a BeagleBone Black with an LCD7. I
am running the Ubuntu 13.04 distribution and everything seems to be
working great.

I actually ended up trying to install two times as during the first I
ended up with a read only file system part way through the
installation. I followed the Ubuntu 12.10 instructions on the wiki as
it was the latest, and I'm not sure exactly what but something
happened when installing the essential libraries as the second step.

I had taken quite a few notes so it was wasn't a big deal to reflash
the eMMC and start over. Thinking that installing xorg-dev during the
install process without installing xorg (which I had done previously)
may have broke it, I simply lumped all the libraries and packages into
one long line. Once they all installed, I continued on with my initial
configuring of the board before starting on the cvs step.

Other than taking quite a while to compile, everything went smoothly.
I also tracked down and uncommented the define statements in main.c
for small touchscreen operation which makes it pleasant using the
LCD7.

Brett KQ9N


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com> wrote:
> After a long wait, I finally got my Beaglebone Black and 7" LCD cape.  I did a bunch of searching and came up with the .deb package for installation on the BBB.  When I try to install it through command line OR the .deb installer I get a complaint about the libc6 package.  I tried updating it, but I get a message that I have the latest already.
>
> Has anyone else ran into this?  I have Minicom installed and talking to a TNC-X over USB  and I can see KISS packets in the terminal (I couldn't believe I got that working!), so I'm pretty excited to get Xastir up and running on this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV
> RPC Electronics, LLC
> www.rpc-electronics.com
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