Hi Steve, Fyi, the Xastir development tarball can be downloaded via the link below:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir/ One comment, if he does download from CVS, he will need to execute the bootstrap.sh script. Regards, Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Steve/WM5Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [linuxham] Xastir > Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:45:36 -0700 > From: Steve/WM5Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > OOPS, forgot a line. See line I added below.... > > There is another method you can use too. > > Open gedit (if you are using gnome) or kedit (KDE's version) and paste the > following into it; > > update -P -d > status -v > diff -u > > Save this as a file named ".cvsrc" and be sure to include the period before > the name. > > Next, open a terminal window. Cut and past the following line; > > cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xastir login > > This will log you into the cvs. When it asks for a password, just hit enter. > Do not add anything. You will now be logged in anonymously. > > Now cut and paste this line. Sit back as you will now be building and > downloading all the files needed to build xastir in a file folder called > xastir. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xastir co > xastir > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You could save this for later use as you can update xastir right along with > the developers. > > In the Terminal window, you change directories to xastir, do the > "./configure, make as usual, then change to superuser to install. > > One other hint. If you want to automatically install almost all of the tool > libraries, within xastir, change to superuser cd to scripts and type; > > sh get-maptools.sh When that is finished, type or cut and paste into > terminal > > /sbin/ldconfig > > when that has finished, type exit. > > One gotcha to be very careful of is to never run ./configure or make as > superuser. You will make a mess that is hard to clean up. Also never run > xastir in su mode. > > Do the ./configure - make from here and you will have all that you need. > > > > Hope this helps Roger. > > > Steve/WM5Z > > roger g6ckr wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:54 -0700, Steve/WM5Z wrote: >> >>> >>> Try http://www.xastir.org and on the left side of the page is a link to >>> the active download place. But I just checked, and I guess that the page is >>> down. >>> >>> I could send you the tarball if you like. >>> >> >> site is still down. >> So I might have the take you up in the tarball if nothing is working >> nearer next weekend. >> odd problem at the moment is it complains that libcurl and / or wget is >> missing but both seem to be installed, so maybe its a version or >> location problem. >> Also there is a festival problem but I did have the install that so >> maybe it's one of those apps that have to be run once before it's fully >> installed. >> 73 Roger >> >> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
