[Xastir] Starting xastir

[Norm McMillan]

Dex,
I get it, but I don't think I'm quite ready yet! Like I said to Tom, I'll
give it a try when I get a little more confident and have a day to spare :-)

BTW, ex ZL2TGE back in late 70's. Lived in Brooklyn, Wellington. Have an
aged Aunt out at Otaki... was there over Xmas. Know the Fielding area a
little.

norm
vk3xci

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Dexter N Muir <dexy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

>
>
> On 19/05/16 11:45, xastir-request at lists.xastir.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:45:20 -0600
>> From: Tom Russo<russo at bogodyn.org>
>> To: Norm McMillan<vk3xci at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion<xastir at xastir.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Starting xastir.
>> Message-ID:<20160518234520.GA167 at bogodyn.org>
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>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 09:29:12AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron
>> collision of the<vk3xci at gmail.com>  flavor, containing:
>>
>>> >David, Tom,
>>> >Thanks for the help. It's all coming back out the way it went in...
>>> >slowly:-)
>>> >No sign of icon.png for xastir on build 2.0.0-2.1ubuntu1 but no matter.
>>> >Launching from the main menu with the default icon.
>>>
>> Xastir 2.0.0 is*ANCIENT*.  You are much better off pitching that and
>> building
>> from source.  The current version is 2.0.7, released in April, 2015.
>> 2.0.0
>> was released in October 2010.  There have been bug fixes and compatibility
>> updates since then that are important to get.
>>
>> One of those was the introduction the icon file, which happened in
>> October 2012.  That's why you don't have it.
>>
>> Clearly, whoever created the Xastir package on your system has abandoned
>> the
>> package and not kept it current.  You will be much better served building
>> from source.
>>
>> Further to Tom's input (with full agreement), I have found the best way
> is to use the cvs script at http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir.html
> (Lee K5DAT's site). This assumes ?buntu or ?bian OS, but should serve as a
> basis for a smooth build on other linux systems (I run Kubuntu and
> Raspbian).
> Hopefully helpfully,
> Dex, ZL2DEX
>
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