[OZAPRS] XASTIR - maps

[Tony Hunt]

Hamish..

I am not sure if we are talking about AX25 libraries or Xastir packages now.

The issues Scott refered to with Image magic and Graphics magic are well 
known with Xastir. All the recent debian packages for the buntus and Lenny 
all fail with Raster maps and have issues. I would have thought you were 
across this as you end up often with just a black box instead of a raster 
map depending on the file type (gif or jpg). There are various wikis and 
workarounds involving uninstalling IM and GM packages and then compiling 
your own and even recompiling xastir. Currently Debian is in a bit of a mess 
with these issues and xastir.
The number of posts on the xastir mailing list for this just keeps mounting. 
It re-emerges periodically.
A easy way to get xastir going in xastir is to install LSB and run the 
xastir LSB package for xastir but thats currently at v1.93.

Have a chat with Curt. There was talk about some mods in the source code to 
check how IM was compiled (switches) as a work around. Maybee you can do a 
work around . Currently its a real pain getting xastir going properly with 
just about any debian system. Not an easy  apt-get install xastir anymore.



Tony  Hunt VK5AH  wavetel at internode.on.net

----- Original Message ----- 

> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:27:16 +1100
> From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] XASTIR - maps
> To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
> Message-ID: <20091123222715.GC2193 at cloud.net.au>
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> 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