Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki (fwd)
Tom's posting from June regarding a fixed version of Proj.4: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:58:52 -0600 From: Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org To: Bob Nielsen n...@clearwire.net Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:01:20AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the n...@clearwire.net flavor, containing: On Jun 27, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Tom Russo wrote: Just a warning. This doesn't impact Xastir directly, but does impact *anything* else that uses proj.4 (QGIS, GRASS, or GDAL tools). If you build proj.4 from source, you also need to build libgeotiff from source -- otherwise the package management system will install the broken one anyway. How about installing proj.4 using 'checkinstall'. That way the package manager should recognize it and not install the broken version. Oh yeah, I always forget about that. If one were to configure --prefix=/usr and use checkinstall then this would probably work. Apperently there's a PPA that has a fixed version of proj.4: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable if one is less inclined to do source builds or mess around with checkinstall. This was pointed out in the launchpad bug relating to proj.4. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
On 6/24/09, Kevin Ratcliff ke...@kevinratcliff.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Lee Bengstonlee.bengs...@gmail.com wrote: If the binaries are installed, they will work if Xastir is configured using an additional command line option as follows: configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/geotiff I did put that command in the howto. If the binary install does work properly that's my preference, but it doesn't hurt to list alternate methods too. Just a quick comment - the instructions for updating Xastir in the new HowTo show a simple configure without the CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/geotiff portion. I'm thinking if it is built to use the binary geotiff library, it would have to be configured the same way each time it is updated. Regards, Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
On Jun 27, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Tom Russo wrote: Just a warning. This doesn't impact Xastir directly, but does impact *anything* else that uses proj.4 (QGIS, GRASS, or GDAL tools). If you build proj.4 from source, you also need to build libgeotiff from source -- otherwise the package management system will install the broken one anyway. How about installing proj.4 using 'checkinstall'. That way the package manager should recognize it and not install the broken version. Bob, N7XY ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
hi...made a mistake in the configure instruction for libgeotiff ./configure --with-ld-shared=gcc -shared i added a | that shouldnt have been there 73 David VK4BDJ David wrote: Hi Kevin.very good How -tohowever you have missed the Geotiff libs these libs in Ubuntu 9.04 repositories dont work too well... get the libtiff4 and libtiff4-dev from the repos then d/l libgeotiff-1.2.4 or 1.2.5 whichever you like. unpack the tarball then configure with ./configure --with-ld-shared=gcc -shared|..this is important as mentioned in the Ubuntu 8.10 install instructionsnext make and make install. i have found that if you use GraphicsMagick it wont work with some maps..ImageMagick is no problem.in the 8.10 instructions libmagick9-dev is mentionedthis has now been replaced with ive libmagickwand-dev ive installed Xastir on 9.04 a few times of late as ive crashed h/d's with doing other thingsi usually leave gdal and festival out as i find i dont need them here.ive used local maps from our club websitethey were in Ui-View format..i used inf2geo from the scripts dir to get them to Xastir use.we also have our own NWS alerts for VK and i use the Xastir files for them any other info needed just yell 73 David VK4BDJ Kevin Ratcliff wrote: Hi all, I just created a howto for Ubuntu 9.04 and placed it on the Xastir wiki: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04 It's mostly based on the excellent howto for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10, but I did things slightly differently. If anyone is running Ubuntu 9.04 and wants to try my instructions for the CVS installation I'd appreciate any feedback on things that worked or didn't work for you. Since it's a wiki, you can edit the page yourself too, so if something is wrong (I've been known to make mistakes before!) you can just change it so that it's correct. I tried to test everything in the howto, starting from a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, but I'm sure I left something out or made a typo somewhere in there. Thanks. Kevin KB9MQU ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 AM, David djm...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi Kevin.very good How -tohowever you have missed the Geotiff libs these libs in Ubuntu 9.04 repositories dont work too well... Thanks David. I guess I assumed that since the geotiff-dev package was available in the repository and Xastir found it with configure that it would work properly in 9.04. Bad assumption on my part. I will correct the wiki entry later today, unless someone else beats me to it. With regard to ImageMagick, I did notice that libmagick9-dev didn't work in 9.04. I thought I found somewhere that the replacement was called libmagickcore-dev, and that's what I put in the wiki and it seemed to work for me. Maybe libmagickwand-dev works too, I'll have to research that one and find out which is better to use (unless someone else knows). Thanks for the feedback! Kevin KB9MQU ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
Is there an upgrade guide somewhere for going from 8.04 to 9.04 or 9.10? -- William McKeehan KI4HDU http://mckeehan.homeip.net On Wed, June 24, 2009 4:39 am, Kevin Ratcliff wrote: Hi all, I just created a howto for Ubuntu 9.04 and placed it on the Xastir wiki: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04 It's mostly based on the excellent howto for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10, but I did things slightly differently. If anyone is running Ubuntu 9.04 and wants to try my instructions for the CVS installation I'd appreciate any feedback on things that worked or didn't work for you. Since it's a wiki, you can edit the page yourself too, so if something is wrong (I've been known to make mistakes before!) you can just change it so that it's correct. I tried to test everything in the howto, starting from a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, but I'm sure I left something out or made a typo somewhere in there. Thanks. Kevin KB9MQU ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Kevin Ratcliff wrote: With regard to ImageMagick, I did notice that libmagick9-dev didn't work in 9.04. I thought I found somewhere that the replacement was called libmagickcore-dev, and that's what I put in the wiki and it seemed to work for me. Maybe libmagickwand-dev works too, I'll have to research that one and find out which is better to use (unless someone else knows). libmagickwand and libmagickwand-dev aren't used by Xastir, so unless they messed up in the packaging for ImageMagick/Ubuntu you shouldn't need those particular packages. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
On 6/24/09, Kevin Ratcliff ke...@kevinratcliff.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 AM, David djm...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi Kevin.very good How -tohowever you have missed the Geotiff libs these libs in Ubuntu 9.04 repositories dont work too well... Thanks David. I guess I assumed that since the geotiff-dev package was available in the repository and Xastir found it with configure that it would work properly in 9.04. Bad assumption on my part. I will correct the wiki entry later today, unless someone else beats me to it. I didn't see grabbing the geotiff binaries from the respo's mentioned in the new HowTo - maybe I missed it. If the binaries are installed, they will work if Xastir is configured using an additional command line option as follows: configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/geotiff Just my opinion, but I think the best way to install geotiff is to edit the get-maptools.sh script so that it only grabs the geotiff source code, then run it to install. Change the portion below in the script ALL= http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-6.3.tar.gz http://dl.maptools.org/dl/shapelib/shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz\ http://dl.maptools.org/dl/proj/proj-4.4.9.tar.gz\ http://dl.maptools.org/dl/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.2.3.tar.gz\ http://dl.maptools.org/dl/gdal/gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz; to ALL= http://dl.maptools.org/dl/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.2.3.tar.gz; Then do the ugly hack to the script - deleting the comment characters in the lines specified. I have wiki editing rights, so I can add that as an alternative. With regard to ImageMagick, I did notice that libmagick9-dev didn't work in 9.04. I thought I found somewhere that the replacement was called libmagickcore-dev, and that's what I put in the wiki and it seemed to work for me. Maybe libmagickwand-dev works too, I'll have to research that one and find out which is better to use (unless someone else knows). I've already run through installing from CVS on 9.04 a few times, and libmagickcore-dev is the right package to install replacing libmagick9-dev from earlier versions. I've also found that xorg-dev is no longer needed. Installing libxp-dev and libmagickcore-dev will install a host of x11- dependencies that are also installed when xorg-dev is installed, and it appears that those dependencies are what Xastir needs as opposed to xorg-dev itself. Good work - been meaning to update the wiki myself, but it's that time thing again. Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Lee Bengstonlee.bengs...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't see grabbing the geotiff binaries from the respo's mentioned in the new HowTo - maybe I missed it. Good catch, it isn't listed in the new 9.04 howto. I certainly intended to put it there! The package name for the binaries seems to be 'libgeotiff-dev', which will also install 'libgeotiff1.2' as a dependency. If the binaries are installed, they will work if Xastir is configured using an additional command line option as follows: configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/geotiff I did put that command in the howto. If the binary install does work properly that's my preference, but it doesn't hurt to list alternate methods too. Just my opinion, but I think the best way to install geotiff is to edit the get-maptools.sh script so that it only grabs the geotiff source code, then run it to install. That works too. I have wiki editing rights, so I can add that as an alternative. Go for it!. With regard to ImageMagick, I did notice that libmagick9-dev didn't work in 9.04. I thought I found somewhere that the replacement was called libmagickcore-dev, and that's what I put in the wiki and it seemed to work for me. Maybe libmagickwand-dev works too, I'll have to research that one and find out which is better to use (unless someone else knows). I've already run through installing from CVS on 9.04 a few times, and libmagickcore-dev is the right package to install replacing libmagick9-dev from earlier versions. Cool, thanks. I've also found that xorg-dev is no longer needed. Installing libxp-dev and libmagickcore-dev will install a host of x11- dependencies that are also installed when xorg-dev is installed, and it appears that those dependencies are what Xastir needs as opposed to xorg-dev itself. Good to know. Good work - been meaning to update the wiki myself, but it's that time thing again. Thanks for creating the original Ubuntu CVS howtos, and thanks for your suggestions on the 9.04 howto. Your documentation has saved me a lot of headaches! I will update the 9.04 howto after I run through another installation from scratch with the changes you suggested. Fortunately for me I'm working in a test virtual machine and made a snapshot of it after a plain Ubuntu 9.04 install. Sure makes testing easier when I don't have to reinstall the OS each time and can revert back at any point along the way. Kevin KB9MQU ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
