[ gpsdrive ] error starting gpsdrive using latest svn

[Paul Martin]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:56:34PM +0200, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Tettnang/Germany) wrote:
> On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Hamish wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just built new gpsdrive packages locally using "debuild binary" on
> > Etch.
> >
> > When I try to start I get this error:
> >
> > DB: Error while opening /usr/share/icons/map-icons/geoinfo.db: unable to
> > open database file
> >
> >
> > I used to have such a file in /usr/share/gpsdrive/geoinfo.db, but these
> > new packages do not include that?
> >
> > As I'm on etch, I've build without GDA3, Mapnik, and Speech options.
> >
> > what am I doing wrong?
> 
> You also need to install a recently new version of openstreetmap-icons

$ apt-cache policy openstreetmap-icons
W: Unable to locate package openstreetmap-icons

$ dpkg -S geoinfo.db
openstreetmap-map-icons: /usr/share/icons/map-icons/geoinfo.db

$ apt-cache policy openstreetmap-map-icons
openstreetmap-map-icons:
  Installed: 14179
  Candidate: 14179
  Version table:
 *** 14179 0
        500 http://www.gpsdrive.de lenny/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(Incidentally, your "squeeze" dist is missing any Packages files.)

-- 
Paul Martin <pm at debian.org>