[Xastir] Fedora 9 good news

2008-06-01 Thread John Dvoracek
Xastir is now running on two computers here and drawing maps. I updated my triple boot XP, FreeDOS, Linux box from Fedora 6 (where Xastir was working) to Fedora 9, and I did the yum install method. This was the very first extra package I installed, and to my great and joyous surprise, it worked o

[Xastir] How do I use shapefile maps?

2008-05-29 Thread John Dvoracek
I am having a lot of issues trying to get xastir running under Fedora 9 on a Thinkpad where xastir ran fine under Fedora 7. I'm also trying to have this working by Saturday morning for an event. I've given up on getting online maps working since there seems to be some bug with those as also exper

[Xastir] Fedora 9: yum install xastir - fine business but map help needed

2008-05-18 Thread John Dvoracek
I was forced into re-installing my Thinkpad T23 when Fedora 7 and madwifi would no longer cooperate (not that they ever did very well). I opted for Fedora 9 and had noticed the earlier posts about an rpm which I think is fantastic, but I can't get any maps to show and I no longer can even guess wh