Thanks Lee,

I did forget that step. Is the server back up? Last I checked the 
tarball wasn't downloading. It would just time out.

Steve



Lee Bengston wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Fyi, the Xastir development tarball can be downloaded via the link below:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir/
>
> One comment, if he does download from CVS, he will need to execute the
> bootstrap.sh script.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Steve/WM5Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:        Re: [linuxham] Xastir
>> Date:   Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:45:36 -0700
>> From:   Steve/WM5Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> References:     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>> OOPS, forgot a line. See line I added below....
>>
>> There is another method you can use too.
>>
>> Open gedit (if you are using gnome) or kedit (KDE's version) and paste the
>> following into it;
>>
>> update -P -d
>> status -v
>> diff -u
>>
>> Save this as a file named ".cvsrc" and be sure to include the period before
>> the name.
>>
>> Next, open a terminal window. Cut and past the following line;
>>
>> cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xastir login
>>
>> This will log you into the cvs. When it asks for a password, just hit enter.
>> Do not add anything. You will now be logged in anonymously.
>>
>> Now cut and paste this line. Sit back as you will now be building and
>> downloading all the files needed to build xastir in a file folder called
>> xastir.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xastir co
>> xastir
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> You could save this for later use as you can update xastir right along with
>> the developers.
>>
>> In the Terminal window, you change directories to xastir, do the
>> "./configure, make as usual, then change to superuser to install.
>>
>> One other hint. If you want to automatically install almost all of the tool
>> libraries, within xastir, change to superuser cd to scripts and type;
>>
>> sh get-maptools.sh When that is finished, type or cut and paste into
>> terminal
>>
>> /sbin/ldconfig
>>
>> when that has finished, type exit.
>>
>> One gotcha to be very careful of is to never run ./configure or make as
>> superuser. You will make a mess that is hard to clean up. Also never run
>> xastir in su mode.
>>
>> Do the ./configure - make from here and you will have all that you need.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps Roger.
>>
>>
>> Steve/WM5Z
>>
>> roger g6ckr wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:54 -0700, Steve/WM5Z wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Try http://www.xastir.org and on the left side of the page is a link to
>>>> the active download place. But I just checked, and I guess that the page is
>>>> down.
>>>>
>>>> I could send you the tarball if you like.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> site is still down.
>>> So I might have the take you up in the tarball if nothing is working
>>> nearer next weekend.
>>> odd problem  at the moment is it complains that libcurl and / or wget is
>>> missing but both seem to be installed, so maybe its a version or
>>> location problem.
>>> Also there is a festival problem  but I did have the install that so
>>> maybe it's one of those apps that have to be run once before it's fully
>>> installed.
>>> 73 Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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