[Xastir] Confused..HELP

[Ken Koster]

On Saturday, November 7, 2020 3:50:22 PM PST Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 09:57:32AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <aprs at exemail.com.au> flavor, containing:
> > Ideally, yes.
> > 
> > The problem with the repo version is its age. For Debian Buster the repo
> > version is 2.1.0 released on Feb 12 2018.

Fair enough.   I don't run Xastir on my RPi and I don't run Debian on my other 
machines (OpenSUSE) so the released version is usually adaquate although I build 
from scratch there too.

> > v2.1.4 (Jul 15 2019) fixed numerous issues and the latest release is 2.1.6
> > (Apr 18 2020). Look here for releases and fixes.
> > https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/releases
> > 
> > Compiling from Github sources is simple provided the steps in the
> > documentation are accurately followed.

> What he said.
> 
> Ubuntu/Raspbian/Debian repos tend to lag releases of Xastir by years.
> 
> The latest "unstable" or "testing" releases might have the latest release
> of Xastir, but the "stable" release of the OS tend to stick with whatever
> version was current when that OS release happened.
> 
> If you want Xastir to work right, you generally have to ignore the packaged
> version and build it yourself from the sources.
> 
> > On 8/11/20 9:17 am, Ken Koster wrote:
> > > Do you really need to re-compile xastir?
> > > It is available from the repositories.
> > > 
> > > sudo apt-get install xastir.
> > > 
> > > On Friday, November 6, 2020 1:24:33 PM PST kb8uih88 at charter.net wrote:
> > > > Hi, newbie here. I can't get Xastir to load properly on my Pi 3.
> > > > Excerpt below from https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian [1]
> > > > When I asked for the bootstrap command to run I got a response of
> > > > root at raspberrypi:~/src/Xastir# ./bootstrap.sh 6) Removing
> > > > autom4te.cache directory... 5) Running aclocal..../bootstrap.sh: 15:
> > > > ./bootstrap.sh: aclocal: not foundroot at raspberrypi:~/src/Xastir#
> > > > Can anyone let me know what didn't load correctly?
> > > > Thanks
> > > > 
> > > > GET XASTIR SOURCE CODE FROM THE GITHUB REPOSITORY
> > > > 
> > > > 	In this method, you get your source code directly from the repository
> > > > 
> > > > the developers use to work on the software. Here's the step-by-step
> > > > method for getting it this way.
> > > > 
> > > > 	You can make different choices here for where you want to store your
> > > > 
> > > > code. This example puts it in a src directory under the user's home
> > > > 
> > > > directory:
> > > > 	 mkdir ~/src cd ~/src
> > > > 	
> > > > 	Then issue the following command to retrieve the latest Xastir code:
> > > > 	 git clone https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git [2]
> > > > 
> > > > The above command could take a while to finish if you're on a slow
> > > > link, as there are a lot of files to download.
> > > > 
> > > > 	* Run bootstrap to generate Makefile.am and configure:
> > > > 	 cd Xastir ./bootstrap.sh
> > > > 
> > > > Links:
> > > > ------
> > > > [1] https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian