Lee, I can flip back and forth between apt and aptitude now, and dpkg as well!
The 1 Mb/s ISP speed limit is what makes life so... um... uh... well you get the drift. The new machine is an i7 and is due to get the 4 GB of RAM upgraded to 32 GB of RAM soon so I guess you can say that a bright spot is on the horizon. 73 Dave KB3EFS On 07/15/2012 08:24 PM, Lee Bengston wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:46 PM, David A Aitcheson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Lee, >> >> Well at least a 32 bit is available for 12.04 now. I tried your file >> Lee. Software Center complained and then some about the file being a 32 >> bit file. > Yeah, I should mention in the Wiki that it's a 32 bit version. I have > a mix of 64 and 32 bit machines at home, and I tend to use 32 bit > versions of Linux on all of them just to keep everything the same. > Therefore I don't currently have a means to build and test deb files > in 64 bit environments. > >> I'll grind out the upgrade to 12.04(amd64) and work on the learning >> curve to build a deb file. With only a 1Mb/s connection an upgrade >> should take about 3 days. Even a i7 processor and can not make a >> connection go any faster than the ISP says you can go. Then there is >> the 4 Gb ram limitation as well. > Given one has to compile Xastir anyway in order to create a deb file, > you might as well just compile Xastir from source after you upgrade to > 12.04 and not worry about using a deb package. The wiki has been > updated now on installing Xastir from source via CVS. > > http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.04 > > The build script, which is referenced in the HowTo above, automates > the whole process - makes it almost as easy as installing a deb > package. The slow internet speed will make it take a while, though. > I just remembered that you were the one that had the negative > experience with an early version of the build script a few years back > - that's because the original script was written to use aptitude > instead of apt. I would not expect there to be an issue now but with > the caveat that there are no guarantees. > > Regards, > Lee - K5DAT > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- David A Aitcheson [email protected] Go Green! Print this email only when necessary. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
