On Oct 22, 2013 10:14 AM, "Michael Gregory" <michael.greg...@verizon.net> wrote:
> I went to the xastir wiki and got directions for building from a tarball. I searched for the latest "stable release, and found version 2.0.4. I executed the instructions from the wiki by copying and pasting the terminal commands from the wiki to my terminal. FAIL!!!! > > The instructions are classic linux instructions, worthless frustrating and a waste of time and effort. I recently built xastir 2.0.4 from source using the documentation included with the source and the wiki and once I got all the dependencies sorted, it worked brilliantly. > The mint package installed version, (2.0.0), works flawlessly as soon as the user figures out that the information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long as they are of a limited set of vector graphics. The fact that your distro's package is doing things differently makes me wonder what else it's doing. Perhaps it's not installing the all the dependencies (or the correct versions). Did you follow the advice you received to look at xastir's About window to see what libraries are installed? > It remains to be seen whether raster graphics will work because they require no only the raster graphics, (.png, .gif, .tif, .jpg…) files, but an accompanying text file with reference information so that the xastir app or its sub components can parse the placement of objects on the graphic background. I am having considerable difficulty finding raster files that come with the associated text file and have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to create them my self. Not difficult just not easy either. It seems that repositories of this kid of data are scarce. When I had everything properly configured, maps "just worked." There was no need to locate or create the descriptor files. Again, I believe they were installed during the standard "make install" process. Are you trying to download and cache the maps yourself so that xastir can find them, or allow xastir to do it "on the fly?" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Burton, N4LWW paulburt...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir