Hi Tom, Thank you for responding. Thanks also for your explanation regarding the different placement of files depending on the origin of the sources; i.e., /usr/ versus /usr/local/. Also, thanks to whoever for the detailed info in the wiki, and keeping it current. It was truly a big help for this newbie. Somewhere I went astray; but, I doubt that is the fault of the wiki. Since the preference is for online answers, I'll thank everyone in advance for your patience.
For several months, I had been using Xastir 1.94 on Ubuntu 10.10. This was obtained from the sourceforge website by clicking the big green button. I later learned it was quite "vintage". But, it functioned for my need as an Igate, so lived with it. On Saturday July 21st, I decided take a quantum leap forward into the current decade. I upgraded both my operating system and Xastir. I began by upgrading the OS from Ubuntu 10.10 (64-bit) to 11.10, then to 12.04 LTS (64-bit). The only hiccup was having to tell 12.04 to use the 2D video for my display. Otherwise, all went smoothly. I then used a different computer for reading the Wiki while upgrading Xastir to version 2.0 and going for the CVS so it would keep abreast with the latest version. I thought I had followed the directions in the Wiki, line by line. But, I realized in-process that I had made a mistake in entering the lines regarding graphicsmagick and gpsman; the text had extended beyond the edge of my screen and I had failed to realize it. Therefore, those lines had been incomplete. I went back and re-entered those lines in their entirety. I continued onward through the wiki instructions. When I got to the part about entering "xastir &" to start the program I received an error message about a socket for Festival, plus the text which I mentioned in my original message; (XReadBitmapFile( ) failed: Bitmap not found?? /usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2xbm). You are correct about me missing the portion that was not in a highlight box. But, after your message I found it. I have not, however, found the file it referred to " ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf" in any folder or subfolder. Ubuntu's file search doesn't find it either. I find in my "Home" folder (or directory, whichever it is called) there is a file called ubuntu-xastir-cvsbuild.sh . In Home/src/ there is one folder called "xastir". It has several subordinate folders and files, none of which end in "cnf". Wait a minute.....I also see a folder "usr" with subordinate folders including "local". In fact, I can follow a pathway of /usr/local/share/xastir/symbols and see a file called 2x2.xbm So, I think what I'm needing is here.. I just need to find a way to steer things to it. Using gedit, I have opened ~/src/xastir/configure . On line 533 (I counted my way down), under the category Initializations. there is a line that says "ac_default_prefix=/usr/local" . For additional reference, on line 540 it begins the "Identify of this package." followed by PACKAGE_NAME='xastir', PACKAGE_TARNAME= 'xastir',PACKAGE_VERSION='2.0.1', and so forth. Line 548, ac_unique_file="src/xastir.h" Is there where I need to be looking? I'm trying to persist through this. Thank you again for your patience, as I slog along. Kelly, KA5MGL > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:51:49 -0600 > From: Tom Russo <[email protected]> > To: Kelly Boswell <[email protected]>, Xastir - APRS client > software discussion <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Help needed--installing xastir 2.0 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:49:30PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> 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. > > This is, by the way, right at the top of the wiki page you referenced, under > "If you alread installed the binary version", where it says: > > Then you need to edit your ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file to change all > occurances of "/usr/share" to "/usr/local/share" > > It may be easy to miss, though, as it's not highlighted the way all of the > cut-and-paste-able commands are. > > -- > 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
