Tom Russo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:54:00PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> Tom Russo wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:14:49PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron >>> collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >>> >>> >>>> Tom Russo wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> config file is still telling it to look in /usr/share instead of >>>>> /usr/local/share (the error message above references /usr/share). >>>>> Check your .xastir/config/xastir.cnf file, especially the >>>>> SYMBOLS_DIR setting. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I am nearly there ! >>>> Xastir will start now. >>>> >>>> I moved all the maps from /usr/share/xastir/maps to >>>> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps >>>> >>>> But there is still a small problem. >>>> There still seems to be a *reference somewhere to /usr/share/xastir/maps.* >>>> I can't find it in .xastir/config/xastir.cnf (every instance of >>>> /usr/share/ was changed to /usr/local/share/ >>>> >>>> error message in the CLI screen is: >>>> 2 File /usr/share/xastir/maps/bignl.gif could not be read >>>> >>> Sounds like you're still running the binary from the Adept install, which >>> would be in /usr/bin rather than in /usr/local/bin, and which would still >>> be >>> looking for things in /usr/share. Please try this in a terminal window: >>> >>> type -a xastir >>> >>> If the only thing that shows up is /usr/local/bin/xastir there's another >>> problem, but if you find both /usr/bin/xastir and /usr/local/bin/xatstir >>> (or >>> even just /usr/bin/xastir) your deinstallation of the older version didn't >>> take. >>> >>> You might still need to do something to complete the deinstallation of the >>> package-installed version. If Adept won't do it for you, it might work by >>> doing >>> apt-get remove xastir >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ~$type -a xastir >> xastir is /usr/local/bin/xastir >> >> ~$sudo apt-get remove xastir >> ................................ >> Package is not installed, so not removed. >> ................................ >> > > That's mighty peculiar. Did you build xastir exactly according to the wiki > instructions? If so, it shouldn't be looking in /usr/share for anything > unless there are lingering configuration issues from the prior binary > install. Did you try removing ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf? If so, xastir > should have rebuilt it with no references to /usr/share at all. > > Do you by any chance have any symbolic links in your maps directory? If so, > perhaps something there is pointing to /usr/share directly. > > Other than that, I can't think of any reason why xastir should continue to > look in /usr/share for anything after doing a source build/install, unless > you > added a "--prefix=/usr" or something like that to the configure line. > > If you can't find any such cause, I'd suggest doing a "make uninstall" from > wherever you built xastir, doing an "mv ~/.xastir ~/.xastir_old", then doing > a > complete "make distclean" and trying the build/install again, starting from > the "bootstrap.sh" step. It sounds like something is confused somewhere, and > it might be necessary for you to clean out all old remnants of the previous > install. > > The only solution I found (after a day of struggling)was, to reinstall Kubuntu and recompile Xastir. Then everything was OK.
Anyway, tnx for ur support, 73, Henk ON4HSO/PA2HO _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
