On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:18:40PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > Hi gang; > ? > I was upgrading to Xastir 2.0. following the instructions at the wiki > (xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.04) .? But, I did something wrong.? > ? > When type XASTIR in the terminal, I get the following: > XReadBitmapFile( ) failed: Bitmap not found?? /usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2xbm > ? > What did I do? > ? > Can someone guide me?through correcting my problem?? Offline will be fine. > ?
We prefer to do on-line answers here, so that everyone benefits from the answers. Are you upgrading from a prior binary install? Here's why I ask: Linux package managers like to put all installed stuff into /usr (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share, etc.). But when you build from source, the default behavior is to put things in /usr/local (/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/share). When you first install Xastir from a binary package and run it, all of your config files (in ~/.xastir/config) get set up to look for support files in /usr/share/xastir. If you then do an upgrade to a later version from source, the files that the old package had in /usr/share are now in /usr/local/share. The best way to fix this issue is to edit your ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file in your normal text editor of choice and change all references to "/usr/share" to "/usr/local/share". The error message you are getting will go away. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
