[Xastir] re the problem that I asked about earlier

[vk2tv]

Phil,

Since you installed from a package you'll likely find xastir in 
/usr/share/xastir. The "Debian" way is for packages to install in 
/somewhere/somewhere/somewhere but programs compiled on the machine go 
into /somewhere/local/somewhere/somewhere.

Unless it's changed very recently it's normal for xastir to be started 
as root to provide access to kernel AX25 networking. The traditional fix 
has been to change permissions for xastir

  su -c "chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/xastir"

If you installed from a package drop "local" and use

su -c "chmod u+s /usr/bin/xastir"

Other methods have been suggested but I've not gone down an alternative 
path.

Ray
vk2tv

On 2/6/20 3:06 pm, Phil wrote:
> On 2/6/20 10:02 am, Tom Russo wrote:
>
> Thank you Tom,
>
>> If you're running from a package, that stuff is usually in 
>> /usr/share/xastir
>> instead, and getting this message means you probably have an xastir.cnf
>> file that is left over from a source-built install (that is, it contains
>> configuration for Xastir to look in /usr/local/share/xastir, but the 
>> package
>> didn't install stuff there).
>
> I did install from the Ubuntu 20.04 repository, but I did attempt to 
> build xastir 2.08 but it failed because of a missing dependency. I had 
> build this version under Kubuntu 19.10 in the past successfully but 
> rather than stuff around I installed the 20.04 package instead. The 
> package installer offered me two choices, "yes" and "no". It read 
> something like "if you don't know what you're doing then select the 
> default option" which is "yes". Xastir installed but would only run as 
> root so I uninstalled and this time selected "no" and all was fine 
> until I rebooted the next day.
>
> Can you see a likely source of a problem there?
>
> my ./xastir.cnf includes the following:
>
> AUTO_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
> ALERT_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/Counties
> SELECTED_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
> SELECTED_MAP_DATA:config/selected_maps.sys
> MAP_INDEX_DATA:config/map_index.sys
> SYMBOLS_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols
> SOUND_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
> GROUP_DATA_FILE:config/groups
> GNIS_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.gnis
> GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/geocode
> SHOW_FIND_TARGET:1
>
> However, there isn't a /usr/local/share/xastir directory, only 
> /usr/local/share. If I rename my .xastir.cnf file then xastir will 
> start and will rebuild the same .xastir.cnf file.
>
> There is a conflict there. I thought about purging the xastir package 
> rather than uninstalling it but I don't think that explains the 
> conflict in my ./xastir.cnf file.
>
> What do you suggest now?
>
> By the way, I'm not interested in festival.
>