On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 3:25 PM, John Gorkos <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is, it doesn’t work. The underlying dependencies aren’t > fulfilled properly. The problem is something like this: gpsmanshp > requires Tcl8.4 (because that’s how it’s compiled), but raspbian ships > with Tcl8.5. Fyi, this same problem surfaced with Ubuntu 12.10 about a year ago - from what I can tell it's basically a broken gpsmanshp package. It was still present in Ubuntu 13.04 last spring. It's probably in Debian Wheezy as well, which is how it ended up in the Raspbian distro. I found if i just deleted the post install script in the gpsmanshp deb package, it would install without errors - that was an ugly solution, and I'm not sure if it impaired the functionality of gpsmanshp by doing that. Later there was a message on this list that said the work-around was to install tcl8.4. I tried that on the Raspberry Pi today, and although I got a warning during the installation, it completed, and Xastir seemed happy with it when compiling. There was no issue with installing tcl8.4 when tcl8.5 was already installed. > > Xastir as it’s compiled now is perfectly capable of using a GPS. Here’s > the description of GPSMan: > Description: GPS data graphical manager > GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes > possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly > environment. GPSMan supports communication and real-time logging > with both Garmin and Lowrance receivers and accepts real-time logging > information in NMEA 0183 from any GPS receiver. > Do you use the GPSMan capability of Xastir? Can someone tell me what it > does? If it’s mission critical, I’ll see what I can do. I’m already > doing that for geotiff (I’m going to compile my own library against > graphicsmagick and put it up on the web site, as well.) > > I don't consider gpsman and gpsmanshp as mission critical, and most users probably wouldn't, but it depends on who's using it and what their needs are. Regards, Lee - K5DAT _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
