[Xastir] Map Chooser and map display question on Raspberry Pi

[David Ranch]

Please run "./configure" on your Xastir sources and email us the 
results.  We need to see what's getting enabled vs not enabled at 
compile time.

--David
KI6ZHD


On 11/04/2017 11:18 AM, Joseph LaFerla wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been experiencing problems displaying maps in Map Chooser and in the main xastir execution window.  I recently installed the latest version from source.  What happens is that my maps do not show up in the xastir window – I have only a blank screen.  In Map Chooser I have the Online directory and the two subdirectories but the geo files below that do not show up. Speaking with David Aitcheson, we noted that directories in the /usr/local tree have different permissions than the standard.  This is a dump of the directory /usr/local/share:
>
> pi at shrimp16_pi:/usr/local/share $ ls -l
> total 32
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root staff 4096 Sep  7 11:08 ca-certificates
> drwxr-sr-x  3 root staff 4096 Nov  2 16:05 doc
> drwxrwsr-x  3 root staff 4096 Sep  7 11:19 emacs
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root staff 4096 Sep  7 11:20 fonts
> drwxrwsr-x  3 root staff 4096 Nov  2 16:05 man
> drwxrwsr-x  7 root staff 4096 Sep  7 11:06 sgml
> drwxr-sr-x 11 root staff 4096 Nov  4 08:42 xastir
> drwxrwsr-x  6 root staff 4096 Sep  7 11:08 xml
>
> This permission structure also appears in my other Raspberry pi.  The staff permission apparently is used in Raspbian, Debian and OSX at least.
>
> We were wondering if this could be the reason why the geo files do not show up in Map Chooser and how do I fix it so that I am able to view the maps?  Please ask for further clarification.
>
> Joe
> VA3JLF