[ gpsdrive ] error starting gpsdrive using latest svn

[chris h]

On Saturday 25 April 2009 13:05:31 chris h wrote:
> On Saturday 25 April 2009 08:20:55 Guenther Meyer wrote:
> > just some seconds ago i added a tar.gz containing the base files to the
> > downloads on our sourceforge site ;-)
>
> apologies in advance for the lame question but how do I install these.
> Starting gpsdrive gives me the following error:

Answering my own silly questions, by placing the icons in the appropriate 
location on my system and recompiling the latest svn version gpsdrive now 
lives and works fine on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. 

So the steps are rather simple: at this stage. 

- download latest svn 
- download basic icon tarball from sourceforge download site and install in 
the appropriate location on your system (usr/local/share/icons/)
- edit by hand the DefineOption file and turn off what you dont want or need
- change to build directory and run ccmake .. (with two trailign dots), the 
option (c) to configure and option (g) to generate the make file.
- run make
- once build runs to completion run sudo make install
- start gpsd
- start gpsdrive

- voila, a basic minimal system with zero options/additional features. 


Many thanks all. 

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/ch