On Saturday, November 7, 2020 3:50:22 PM PST Tom Russo wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 09:57:32AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > Ideally, yes. > > > > The problem with the repo version is its age. For Debian Buster the repo > > version is 2.1.0 released on Feb 12 2018.
Fair enough. I don't run Xastir on my RPi and I don't run Debian on my other machines (OpenSUSE) so the released version is usually adaquate although I build from scratch there too. > > v2.1.4 (Jul 15 2019) fixed numerous issues and the latest release is 2.1.6 > > (Apr 18 2020). Look here for releases and fixes. > > https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/releases > > > > Compiling from Github sources is simple provided the steps in the > > documentation are accurately followed. > What he said. > > Ubuntu/Raspbian/Debian repos tend to lag releases of Xastir by years. > > The latest "unstable" or "testing" releases might have the latest release > of Xastir, but the "stable" release of the OS tend to stick with whatever > version was current when that OS release happened. > > If you want Xastir to work right, you generally have to ignore the packaged > version and build it yourself from the sources. > > > On 8/11/20 9:17 am, Ken Koster wrote: > > > Do you really need to re-compile xastir? > > > It is available from the repositories. > > > > > > sudo apt-get install xastir. > > > > > > On Friday, November 6, 2020 1:24:33 PM PST [email protected] wrote: > > > > Hi, newbie here. I can't get Xastir to load properly on my Pi 3. > > > > Excerpt below from https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian [1] > > > > When I asked for the bootstrap command to run I got a response of > > > > root@raspberrypi:~/src/Xastir# ./bootstrap.sh 6) Removing > > > > autom4te.cache directory... 5) Running aclocal..../bootstrap.sh: 15: > > > > ./bootstrap.sh: aclocal: not foundroot@raspberrypi:~/src/Xastir# > > > > Can anyone let me know what didn't load correctly? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > GET XASTIR SOURCE CODE FROM THE GITHUB REPOSITORY > > > > > > > > In this method, you get your source code directly from the > > > > repository > > > > > > > > the developers use to work on the software. Here's the step-by-step > > > > method for getting it this way. > > > > > > > > You can make different choices here for where you want to store > > > > your > > > > > > > > code. This example puts it in a src directory under the user's home > > > > > > > > directory: > > > > mkdir ~/src cd ~/src > > > > > > > > Then issue the following command to retrieve the latest Xastir > > > > code: > > > > git clone https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git [2] > > > > > > > > The above command could take a while to finish if you're on a slow > > > > link, as there are a lot of files to download. > > > > > > > > * Run bootstrap to generate Makefile.am and configure: > > > > cd Xastir ./bootstrap.sh > > > > > > > > Links: > > > > ------ > > > > [1] https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
