Tom Russo wrote: > Excellent. I hope you enjoy using the bleeding edge version of xastir. I'm > pretty sure the one that you can download as an Ubuntu package is rather old. > > Note, though, that the package version will have installed all sorts of things > in /usr/share (maps, config files, etc.) and when you ran xastir from the > package it created a configuration file in ~/.xastir/config that points to > those locations. > > When you install xastir from source, it'll install into /usr/local, and > the things that were previously in /usr/share are now in /usr/local/share. > Your configuration file will be telling xastir to look in the wrong place. > > There are two approaches to fixing that. The no-brainer approach is just > to remove the file "~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf" and let xastir rebuild it. > Doing so will require that you re-do all of your customization (call sign, > station icon, interfaces, etc.), but if you haven't done much of that it's > the easy way. > > The other approach would be to edit the .xastir/config/xastir.cnf file > and replace all the instances of "/usr/share" with "/usr/local/share". Those > are going to be in the AUTO_MAP_DIR, ALERT_MAP_DIR, SELECTED_MAP_DIR, > SYMBOLS_DIR, SOUND_DIR, GNIS_FILE, and GEOCODE_FILE settings. > More work, but it won't trash your other customizations. > >
I will go for the no(n)-brainer approch. :-D 73, Henk, ON4HSO _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
