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Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
As a quick note before my wifi dies. I just downloaded the OpenCPN
"deb" file from the home URL and installed it on Ubuntu 9.10 with no
problems whatsoever. Have also downloaded the source (from same URL)
and having troubles making the cmake scripts. More as it happens.
Cheers,
Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Yeah, I think the .deb I downloaded might have worked had I
installed wxWidgets 2.8 instead of 2.9 (my bad). I'll give
that another try and let you know. Regarding compile, I notice
that the very bottom of http://opencpn.org/compiling_source_linux
mentions that they used to use tried-and-true "configure;make;
make install" scripts. Too bad they had to go change that.
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In article , JohnF wrote:
Justin C wrote:
JohnF wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

Don't spend too much time; it's not really too important.
And I'm guessing you used some installer like apt-get which
might have -- unbeknownst to you -- downloaded more stuff
than you explicitly downloaded from opencpn.org .

apt doesn't download stuff without letting the user know. It always
tells of dependancies and asks if the user would like to get those too.
In addition, the couldn't install the package with apt unless the
OpenCPN web-site was added to /etc/apt/sources.list, and the site was
configured as a Debian type repository (which is unlikely). What is more
likely is that the .deb was downloaded and installed with something like
dpkg. dpkg will complain of missing dependencies but the user will have
to track those down themselves.

Thanks for the apr corrections, Justin, and for the additional (snipped)
debian info. I've been using slackware, and (obviously) don't know much
about debian's installer. Based on Bruce's discussion, I'd just assumed
apt probably did something along the lines I described; apparently not.

Taking a quick look at one of the Debian systems here, I can tell you
that wx is available in current Debian stable, however, according to
mine (which might be old stable, I don't recall just now) it's only 2.6,
I think I read on this thread that 2.8 is required.

Yeah, based on messages from my failed install, 2.8 is required.
So now I'd try assuming Bruce's release had 2.8 installed by
default (slackware 12.2 has no wxWidgets installed).

Slackware, IIRC, has almost nothing installed unless you expressly ask
for it! Not a bad thing. I'm starting to find that a basic Debian
install is getting rather large with all of the `required' packages.
Especially when I know that I'll never want or need that stuff.

The reason I haven't gone the Slackware or Linux From Scratch route is
that you have to watch too many packages for security updates. With
Debian I find it's so much easier to just run an `apt-get update' and
`apt-get upgrade' once in a while.


And I now see from http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ that
the 2.9 I downloaded is a "development" release; had I noticed that
originally I'd have downloaded the "current stable" 2.8 to begin with.
And that probably would have worked with the executable images in
the .deb file.

Ubuntu (mentioned by Bruce IIRC) should be about the easiest install -
providing they've wx 2.8 in their repository, and I can't see why they
wouldn't. Got space for another partition?

Justin.

--
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:09:12 +0000 (UTC), JohnF
wrote:


Yeah, I think the .deb I downloaded might have worked had I
installed wxWidgets 2.8 instead of 2.9 (my bad). I'll give
that another try and let you know. Regarding compile, I notice
that the very bottom of http://opencpn.org/compiling_source_linux
mentions that they used to use tried-and-true "configure;make;
make install" scripts. Too bad they had to go change that.

I have a mix of wx-whatever but the latest seems to be 2.8.10.1. As
far as I know part of initial installation.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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In article , Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

As a quick note before my wifi dies. I just downloaded the OpenCPN
"deb" file from the home URL and installed it on Ubuntu 9.10 with no
problems whatsoever. Have also downloaded the source (from same URL)
and having troubles making the cmake scripts. More as it happens.

It might have installed OK, but does it work? Also, if the .deb
installed OK why DL the source?

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

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On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:51:55 +0100, Justin C
wrote:

In article , Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

As a quick note before my wifi dies. I just downloaded the OpenCPN
"deb" file from the home URL and installed it on Ubuntu 9.10 with no
problems whatsoever. Have also downloaded the source (from same URL)
and having troubles making the cmake scripts. More as it happens.

It might have installed OK, but does it work? Also, if the .deb
installed OK why DL the source?

Justin.


As far as I can tell so far it does work. I haven't connected a GPS to
it but the README file mentions various problems that may occur with
permissions there so I guess "connective problems" can be considered
as normal :-)

As for the source, my main systems all run Fedora so the deb file is
of limited usefulness.


Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)