[OZAPRS] XASTIR - maps

[Ray Wells]

Hamish,

It all depends on what you want to do.

According to a recent posting to Linux-hams, Steve Frazer's version of 
ax25ipd, from about 2004/5, that handles dynamic ip addresses, still 
isn't in the package. That may not be important if you don't run 
axudp/axip links, but if you do it's an important fix.The email was from 
a respected contributor so I presume the information is correct.

Bernard F6BVP has produced numerous patches for kernel ax25 sources. 
Those patches fix problems we experienced in bbs/fpacnode service but 
they're mostly not available in official sources.

The packaged (deb) version of xastir won't display raster maps, just a 
black tile, in Ubuntu 9.04, presumably because of a graphics problem 
that may be related to colour depth in another package. I tried swapping 
out to im or gm but as expected this broke the package and didn't solve 
the problem.

For me, compiling everything seems to avoid most issues, and it's not 
difficult. I've just compiled libax25, ax25-apps, ax25-tools and xastir 
on Kubuntu 9.10. It took about an hour by the time I compiled a couple 
of packages that xastir requires (the package versions are not 
satisfactory, according to the xastir SIG and wiki) and xastir just 
worked first time.

The lack of feedback probably stems from the RTFM brigade who, it seems, 
have zero tolerance for people who are having difficulties coming to 
grips with the complexities of Linux. How would we mere mortals know if 
an issue is due to a package problem, or if it's something of our own 
making? Why report something that may be the latter, only to be flamed, 
and to whom do you report it?

Ray vk2tv



Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:34:52PM +1100, Andrew Gilbett wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Everyone for your input XASTIR is working well now. I compiled
>> it from source and that seems to have solved all the problems. I also
>> took your advice ray and compiled and installed the AX25 libraries
>> from Bernard F6BVP. It appears to be working well using the internet
>> stream. Time to tackle RF very soon.
>>     
>
> What's wrong with the packaged version anyway?
>
> I built the package and haven't had any feedback about problems with it.
>
>
>
> Hamish
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