Jim Shorney wrote: > I redid everything per the instructions at > http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_8.10, and it all worked.
Hmm... well. I first tried a straightforward build of the "first version of xastir" (as described on the indicated Ubuntu HowTo page) on my Debian system, but the configure script barfed on a couple of dependencies (it didn't believe that libtiff was installed, and couldn't find the gdal-config script). So I went to the HowTo page for Debian Squeeze (the "testing" version, more recent than my stable 5.0.3 distro) and followed the instructions I found there for obtaining, building installing proj.4, libgeotiff and GDAL. (These instructions also include a section on fixing the bug in libgeotiff's configure script, a cause of the original, spurious error messages about libcurl and wget.) After all that, xastir's configure script was much happier, and I successfully built and installed xastir-1.9.6 [*]. However, now when I run it, there are *no* maps other than worldhi.map listed in the Map Chooser, even though the entries in my ~/.xastir/config/xastir.conf file properly reference directories in /usr/local/share/xastir/ , and the same .geo files are present in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps as before: % ls -R /usr/local/share/xastir/maps GPS Online worldhi.map /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/GPS: placeholder /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online: CanadaTopo250k.geo terraserver-reflectivity.geo tigermap.geo WMSRadar.geo CanadaTopo50k.geo terraserver-topo.geo TXRadar.geo terraserver.geo terraserver-urban.geo USRadar.geo (And yes, I do have "Expand Dirs" selected in the Map Chooser. :-) [*]: Two "recommended options" that xastir's configure script set to "no" were: GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster Maps) map caching (raster map speedups) I think this *could* be because i wasn't able to install libmagickcore-dev from Debian's "lenny" (stable) package repository, and I haven't yet figured out how to persuade apt-get to obtain it from the "squeeze" (testing) package repository. ==> How likely is it that absence of the ImageMagick feature would prevent xastir from seeing (or honoring) the .geo files in the maps/ directory? Thanks for the help so far! 73, Michael Curry, KI6TYV _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
