[aprssig] KNOPPIX and XASTIR

[Stephen - K1LNX]

Anyone tried Ubuntu yet?

That is my distro of choice, and I've been running it for almost 2 years
without any issues. Xastir is located in the repositories, and there is
excellent how-to instructions for building it from source in the Xastir
wiki.

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_6.10

Ubuntu is an all around great distribution on top of that.

73's
Stephen
K1LNX

On 8/19/07, Wes Johnston, AI4PX <wes at ai4px.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know how to get xastir going on puppy linux?
>
> Wes
>
>
> On 8/19/07, Greg D. <ko6th_greg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hmmpf...  Surprised to see so many posts with xastir problems.  It came
> > right up for me on SuSE 10.0.  I'm running version 1.8.4.  What did I do
> > right?
> >
> > Greg.
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: "Dave Baxter" <dave at emv.co.uk>
> > Reply-To: TAPR APRS Mailing List < aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> > To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> > Subject: RE: [aprssig] KNOPPIX and XASTIR
> > Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:40:10 +0100
> >
> > I have a Mandrake 9.something PC here.  Like you, I find it very
> > frustrating
> > to use.  The only thing useful I've done with it, is use it for running
> > an
> > EchoLink Proxy.  And even that has to be loaded manually each time.
> > Something strange about Java app's, you can't "launch" them at start-up
> > automatically.  OK, so the usual "Office" type stuff runs OK, as does
> > web
> > browsing and email etc.
> >
> > Updates?  Forget it, none available unless you scrub it, and install a
> > "clean" copy of Mandriva or some other version of Linux.  (I can't be
> > bothered personally with all that again)
> >
> > Knoppix.  Have that (Harve's hamshack hack)  It's very fussy about
> > screen
> > hardware I find.  And takes an age to boot, even on a multi GHZ machine
> > with
> > 100's of MB of ram..
> >
> > Xastir on Knoppix, I did get it to load once, but when I tried
> > customising
> > it (My callsign etc) it kept crashing.   Virtually no maps for anything
> > outside the US available in a usable form either.  (No flame wars
> > please,
> > try it, they don't work!)
> >
> > About the best "Live" Linux CD I've found, is the "Puppy"
> > versions.  Fast,
> > stable, and updatable.  Google for "Puppy Linux".  But...  Little Ham
> > software available for that version the last time I looked (3 months
> > ago)
> > Again, all the usual stuff works fine, it even found a way past our
> > company
> > proxy/firewall all by itself.  Even Windows can't do that without
> > help!...
> >
> > Cheers..
> >
> > Dave G0WBX
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Jason Rausch [mailto:jason at ke4nyv.com]
> > Sent: Sat 18/08/2007 03:31
> > To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [aprssig] KNOPPIX and XASTIR
> >
> >
> >
> > Not to steal this thread, but does anyone have some
> > tips for installing XASTIR on Mandrake 8.1?  Better
> > yet, is there some way to "live update" Mandrake to a
> > Mandriva kernel and then install from there?  I have
> > attempted an "apt-get" with no luck.  It actually
> > tells me that it doesn't recognize apt-get as a valid
> > command.
> >
> > I am in NO WAY handy with Linux.  I just recently
> > dusted off this copy of 8.1 and installed it on a
> > spare machine.  I went ahead and installed every
> > package available on the CD, hoping that I might
> > actually be able to do somthing with it.  It seems
> > like everytime I try to play with Linux, a couple of
> > days later I want to throw the computer through the
> > wall.  So, I give up and go play with somthing else.
> >
> > Jason KE4NYV
> > RPC Electronics
> > www.rpc-electronics.com
> >
> >
> > --- "Wes Johnston, AI4PX" <wes at ai4px.com> wrote:
> >
> > > look for harv's hamshack hack...
> > >
> > > http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net
> > >
> > > I did recompile it a year ago to include street maps
> > > of south carolina for
> > > use at our local NWS office.
> > >
> > > Wes
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8/17/07, Andrew Rich < vk4tec at people.net.au>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  Anyone made .ISO for using XASTIR off a boot disk
> > > ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > > Andrew Rich VK4TEC
> > > > vk4tec at people.net.au
> > > > http://www.tech-software.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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Stephen Brown - ARS K1LNX
Johnson City, TN EM86uh
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