[Xastir] Xastir sound files missing..

[David A Aitcheson]

On 07/16/2016 09:57 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 09:44:07PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <david.aitcheson at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>>>>>     play formats: can't open input file 
>>>>> `/usr/share/xastir/sounds//usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Sms.ogg': No such 
>>>>> file or directory
>>>> Paths in Xastir are *always* relative to the Xastir share directory.  You
>>>> can't specify absolute paths in any of Xastir's config (maps, symbols, sounds,
>>>> etc.)
>>>>
>>>> The behavior you describe is what's expected.  Put your sounds files in 
>>>> /usr/share/xastir/sounds, 
>> Shouldn't this be    /usr/local/share/xastir/sounds   ???
>>
>> My system is not letting me do anything in  /usr/share  even as root.
> Depends completely on what system you have and how you install Xastir.
>
> Most packaged Xastir builds (and apparently the one David Ranch is using)
> generally put Xastir and its share directory under /usr.
>
> Hand-rolled source builds of Xastir put it under /usr/local unless told 
> to do otherwise.
>


Ah yes, just hacked away enough cobwebs. I am running an install from
source pulled from Git as I used to run from CVS so I have a slight bit
of tunnel vision regarding file structures.

Thank you for helping to clear the cobwebs.