gpsdrive

Forum: Apps
Topic: gpsdrive
started by: brian

Posted by brian on May 08 2005,14:26

Has anyone got gpsdrive to work on dsl?
I've gotten it to work on suse 9.1, and I think it would be a perfect fit for dsl while traveling.

Posted by DeeJay on May 08 2005,18:05

GPSdrive - I haven't tried it yet, but plan to. There is a Debian package of it, so I am assuming I will simply be able to apt-get it. Does anyone know otherwise?

Posted by brian on May 08 2005,19:36

I did try the Debian package on my Mepis box but didn't get that to work. tried the .tar.gz on both Mepis and DSL but didn't work for me. My next step is to try the Debian package on my DSL box.

Posted by brian on May 08 2005,23:52

Got it working on Mepis now. I will try the Debian package with DSL.

Posted by brian on May 15 2005,14:57

I tried the debian package after installing apt-get for dsl, but I did not get it to work.
I tried the tarball but I'm getting errors on installation.
Could it be a dependency problem?

Here is what the application needs (I'm a newbie and not sure what dsl has) from < http://www.gpsdrive.cc/readme.shtml: >

"To compile gpsdrive you need to development packages of:

GTK-+2.x (better >=2.2.x)
pango
atk
pcre
xdevel (X11 development)
gettext
libcrypt
glibc

also the compiler gcc >=3.x
make

To compile from the tarball:

Extract it with "tar -xvzf gpsdrive*tar.gz"
cd gpsdrive
./configure
make

If you don't need the support of the GARMIN protocol (you are using
only NMEA protocol) you should configure GpsDrive with:

./configure --disable-garmin

You can also add --enable-auto-optimization for optimized compiler flags.

As root you should do a
make install

to install the program, the gpsd daemon and the language files.

After compiling and installing (install is needed for localisation)
read the manpage of gpsdrive or start the program if you are to lazy
to read manuals. ;-)

You can also download the RPM file and install it:

rpm -Uvh gpsdrive*.rpm"