On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Tony Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Just for info I have done a fresh install of the recent Mepis 11 release on a > machine. I tried the binary deb file for xastir 2.01 from Lee Bengstons > contributions. This installed very easily and quickly with gdebi .. Just > thought some might like to know about this one. Thanks again Lee. Good one.
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Linux_Mint_Debian_Binary > > Regards > > Tony Hunt VK5AH Hi Tony, Funny you were trying that out this weekend because I was trying out Mepis11 for the first time as well as trying Ubuntu 11.04 on something other than a netbook. I was in the process of building a new binary package for 11.04 with the intent of also trying it out in Mepis 11 (and eventually other Debian based distro's) when I saw your email this morning. http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir201-debian6-ubuntu-1104-mepis11-i386-2011May-30.deb The new version is done and has been installed and tested in clean installations of Xubuntu 11.04 and Mepis 11. LIke its predecessor from December, I expect it to work in Ubuntu 10.10, Linux Mint Debian, and Debian 6.0, and I can add Mepis 11 and Ubuntu 11.04 to the list. Given it works in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04, it should also work in the equivalent Ubuntu based versions of LInux Mint, but I don't plan to test those. One caveat - both the binary from December and the one from today are built with Imagemagick. If someone has already installed Graphicsmagick and depends on it, there could be a conflict when installing the new deb package. One interesting note on that - Mepis 11 comes with Graphicsmagick installed. Some of the Imagemagick libraries are pre-installed as well (but not the package specifically named 'imagemagick'). Installing the binary installs imagemagick as a dependency, but there's no issue - everything seems to work fine. I don't remember exactly what the "major" (if any) bug fixes were between a CVS snapshot from 5 months ago vs. now, so I don't know if it is worth it to upgrade if the December binary is working fine for you. If you do upgrade, I would just remove it with Synaptic, and then install the newer one. I already tried that as part of my testing, and it worked fine - all settings were retained. Regards, Lee - K5DAT _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
