[Xastir] Installing Xastir on Mint

[wa7skg]

Progress is definitely being made. Using the 
https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Debian_Stretch_or_Jessie went through 
smoothly.

My next problem was getting the interface to work. I could access my TNC 
through minicom without difficulty, however Xastir could not access it. 
I did the "chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir" I found recommended in 
several places with no joy. Finally, in desperation, I did "chmod 777 
/dev/ttyS0" and Xastir successfully connected to the TNC and I am 
displaying data. That probably is not the best option, but it is all I 
could get to work for now.

As I continued reading the instructions, I found the point about 
starting the festival server. So, I closed Xastir and started festival 
with the following results:

"michael at Desk4:~/src/Xastir$  festival --server &
[1] 3640
michael at Desk4:~/src/Xastir$ "Could not find any of these voices:"
(nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts 
nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts nitech_us_clb_arctic_hts 
nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts kal_diphone 
ked_diphone cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn cstr_us_jmk_arctic_multisyn)

WARNING
No default voice found in ("/usr/share/festival/voices/")
either no voices unpacked or voice-path is wrong
Scheme interpreter will work, but there is no voice to speak with.
WARNING

server    Thu Oct 24 10:26:18 2019 : Festival server started on port 1314

michael at Desk4:~/src/Xastir$"

I did a little research on this problem and found the following:

"This is because the festival package does not include something as 
trivial as a default voice. This means you need to install the default 
voice Festival looks for separately, as it is found in the 
festvox-kallpc16k package:

sudo apt-get install festival festvox-kallpc16k

Voilà! You should now be able to use Festival properly."

Perhaps you may want to address these issues in the wiki document.

Thanks everyone for your help. It looks like I have Xastir working. 
Granted, I still don't know what to do with it or what I am looking at, 
but it does seem to work.

73,
Michael WA7SKG



Tom Russo wrote on 10/24/19 8:15 AM:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:59:41AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:57:17AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
>>>> Can somebody please point me in the right direction for current
>>>> information on installing Xastir on a Mint system?
>>>
>>> Generally speaking, if you look at something like the Ubuntu instructions
>>> and try to find packages with the same base name as the ones listed (modulo
>>> version numbers which are very likely outdated), you should be on the right
>>> path.
>>
>> Jason's suggestion of looking at Debian's instructions is a good one, since
>> Mint is a Debian variant.
>>
>> Ignore all reference to GDAL.  Xastir no longer uses it and that section of
>> that wiki guide didn't get updated.
> 
> Well, it is now.  Just went through this one page and cleaned it up.  I also
> removed a bunch of links to OS versions that are ridiculously old (2009 and
> thereabouts) and even one that appears no longer to exist (mepis).
>