Desktop Icon Doesn't work.Forum: Apps Topic: Desktop Icon Doesn't work. started by: Headly Posted by Headly on Oct. 22 2005,06:40
Hi Everyone,I have been working on getting Gpsdrive to compile and install on DSL for some time. I have it almost working. I can start it from the command line no problem. I have created the fille /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/Gpsdrive.lnk I'm not sure what the permissions are supposed to be for the files in this folder so I set them to rwxrxrx dsl staff (also tried chmod 777) Here is the contents of Gpsdrive.lnk The icon is displayed on the desktop no problem but double clicking doesn't do anything in particular. Any Ideas? David (Headly)
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 22 2005,16:19
Practically nothing (except tmp directories) should be chmod'ed 777 unless you don't care about security at all. Typically, non-executable personal files are one of these: 644 (read-write by owner, read-only by everyone else), 664 (read-write by owner and group, read-only by everyone else), or 600 (read-write by owner, unreadable by everyone else). There are other combinations you can use, like 640 or 660, depending on the specific permissions you want. If it's a directory or executable, add 1 to each digit except zero (644 becomes 755, 600 becomes 700).The specifics: first digit = file's owner second = file's group third = everyone else 0 = no permission 4 = read-only 5 = read and execute ('execute' = 'enter' for directories) 6 = read and write 7 = read, write and execute Other numbers can be used but are not used because they are pointless...in order to execute a file you need to be able to read it, so making a file executable but not readable is useless. Your icon looks fine to me (except for the 'gpsdirve' typo), but maybe xtdesk has trouble with the way the variable is set. One thing that might help is to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH from a wrapper script instead of the icon. Say you made a script called /opt/gpsdrive/start_gpsdrive (chmod 755) and put that script in the icon instead. The script would just be something like this:
or
Doing it that way will also help from terminal, since you just have to run the script itself rather than setting the variable every time. Another possibility....Is this an interactive application without a gui? If so you would need to start it in a terminal (aterm -e /opt/gpsdrive/start_gpsdrive) Posted by Headly on Oct. 22 2005,22:48
Hi Mikshaw,Thanks for the lengthy reply. When I saw the typo I thought that was going to be it for sure. But it didn't fix it. I made a wrapper script as you sugested and tested it from the command line and it works from there but my icon still does the same thing. It flashes once the cpu goes to 3% and straight back to zero. This makes me think it is actually doing something. I'm wondering if it is generating an error message and sending it to the big bit bucket on the floor. It is a gui application. It reads data from a gps and displays your location on a moving map on the screen. I think it will be nifty if I can sought out a few more glitches. (I'm just going through them one at a time ). I have dummied up a simulated GPS on another machine and I have it driving around my neighbourhood and GPS drive is following it around so I'm almost there. Once I get it to a stable state I'd like to post it on DSL somewhere to let some other people have a play with it. It is a .tar.gz and it writes everything to /opt/gpsdrive except for the icon stuff (I think). It is a little huge with the zip being around 30mb but with some help I think it can be trimmed a bit. I read some stuff on the wiki about asking for ftp access. Do you know who I should contact about that? Thanks again for your help. David (Headly) Posted by Headly on Oct. 22 2005,23:03
UPDATE.I just put some simple loging in my start.sh wrapper so that if put some output into a file. When run from the desktop icon it doesn't even call it. I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious. Dave Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 23 2005,02:13
I can't think what the problem might be. It works from the commandline, but the same command does not work from the icon. Does it work from the fluxbox menu?
Posted by Headly on Oct. 23 2005,06:51
I'm not sure what a fluxbox is. I'm assuming it is the right click on the desktop that brings up the menu. If so, I haven't created a menu item. As I plan to use this in my car with a touch screen I'm not sure if the menu will be accessible.In any case I think I might have figured it out. Using the "Hello World" principle of debuging I copied an existing .lnk file and created a shell script that just wrote to a log file and nothing else. One by one I changed things and tested it between every change. Those little .lnk files are touchy little begers One character out of place and nothing happens. I made one mistake along the way and I had it so that no icons would come up at all. I haven't rebuilt the pachage yet to do a full end to end test but so far it is looking like it is going to work. Thanks again for your help with this. David (Headly) Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 23 2005,15:06
Fluxbox is the name of the Window manager (graphical interface) that DSL uses...it controls the position, size, and decoration of windows, toolbar and menu, and has that box of apps on the right side (the slit).Yes the icons are touchy little things. I've seen some stupid problems with them, but until now had never seen an error that would allow display of the icon but prevent its use. Posted by ctcurtis on Nov. 05 2005,16:34
Any updates on getting gpsDrive to work? Can you post the application, or at least the steps you took to get it to work properly.
Posted by crusadingknight on Nov. 05 2005,22:58
EDIT: Oops.
Posted by Headly on Nov. 06 2005,04:32
I have got their last stable version 2.09 to work.I think it is about a year and a half old and lots of development work as gone into it since then. I'm currently working on compiling their latest CVS version but there are some more compile problems that I'm working on. It came out faily big (28mb) as I had to include all the gtk+ stuff in the archive. Only because I don't know of a better way to do it. I'm willing to make the version available for testing purposes so long as everyone knows it is a work in progress. I'm not sure where / how to post this kind of thing here on the DSL site. Any suggestions. David Posted by Headly on Nov. 06 2005,05:24
For those who are interested here are my current build scripts for gpsdrive. These are for the latest CVS versions of gpsdrive. I assume they will still work for 2.09 but I haven't tried it. Anyone interested should also visit the nice people at < http://gpsdrive.cc > and read all about the package and what it does.This build process is still work in progress and currently the compile doesn't succeed and fails during the make process of Gpsdrive. If you can figure out why I'm all ears. I'm still working on it. I have been running the scripts below on Knoppix (boot from cd) as I couldn't get all the build stuff to work on DSL. I'm told they should be binary compatible and execute no problem when installed on DSL. As Knoppix runs from RAM disk I couldn't get it to run on a system with 256Mb of RAM. But 512mb is ok. It doesn't crash or give an error it just never completes. You compile each package using build.sh (see below) or just run everything.sh (which calls build.sh many times) to build the lot. It takes about one and a half hours on my little 800mhz beast. Build.sh outputs a "0" at each successfull stage and something else if it fails. The output from the compile process goes to .log files one for each package. I also capture the configure --help output that shows all the different switches available that will come in handy when we try and cut down the size of this. I haven't botherd to make the script exit on failure it just presses on so it is important to scroll back and see where the first problem occured. You will need to change around the variables at the top of each file to suit your system depending on your file system and where you decide to put things along the way. Don't forget each time you reboot you will need to stat the build from the begining as it is in memory it is all lost on shutdown. There is a section in build.sh that removes many of the non esiental files like man pages etc and then it builds the .tar.gz file and places it on my usb key. The whole lot when installed to DSL is contained in /opt/gpsdrive except for the Desktop Icon (I think). So I think it will qualify for one of those "green" ratings if it gets published on DSL's site. There are comments in the scripts but just ask if it isn't clear what they do. I know my scripts are LAME and there are more efficient ways of doing this but when I started I had no idea how big they would become or how similar each of the different packages are. These are the required packages. They should be easy to find and download as they are all very popular things. I think if you find newer versions they should work too. atk-1.10.1.tar.gz cairo-1.0.2.tar.gz expat-1.95.8.tar.gz fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz gettext-0.14.5.tar.gz glib-2.8.1.tar.gz gtk+-2.8.3.tar.gz pango-1.10.0.tar.gz pkg-config-0.19.tar.gz autoconf-2.59.tar.gz automake-1.9.6.tar.gz And gpsdrive-2.10pre3.tar.gz Use this copy of gpsdrive if you don't want to use CVS but they should be almost identical anyway on build.sh will download the latest CVS version when you run it anyway. BTW the CVS download stops and waits for you to enter a password. There is no password just press return. I couldn't figure out how to send a CR automatically. everything.sh ================== mount /dev/hda2 # Knoppix on car computer with usbkey # mount /dev/hda5 # Knoppic on notebook and 2nd partition # echo Compiling Autoconf ./build.sh autoconf /usr # This will install programs to /usr/bin echo Compiling Automake ./build.sh automake /usr # This will install programs to /usr/bin # echo Compiling pkgconfig # Not required on Knoppix # ./build.sh pkgconfig # echo Compiling gettext # Not required on Knoppix # ./build.sh gettext # NOTE: # I can't figure out how to get the library path stuff to work properly. # To work around this I have compiled the packages once into their standard # location so that ./configure can find them and the again into /opt/gpsdrive # which will be the defalut location on DSL # # Note when starting the package on DSL use the following command line. # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gpsdrive/lib /opt/gpsdrive/bin/gpsdrive echo Compiling glib ./build.sh glib /usr ./build.sh glib /opt/gpsdrive echo Compiling freetype ./build.sh freetype /opt/gpsdrive echo Compiling expat ./build.sh expat /opt/gpsdrive echo Compiling fontconfig ./build.sh fontconfig /opt/gpsdrive echo Compiling atk ./build.sh atk /usr ./build.sh atk /opt/gpsdrive echo compiling cairo ./build.sh cairo /usr ./build.sh cairo /opt/gpsdrive echo compiling pango ./build.sh pango /usr ./build.sh pango /opt/gpsdrive echo compiling gtk ./build.sh gtk /usr ./build.sh gtk /opt/gpsdrive echo Update CVS gpsdrive ./build.sh cvsupdate echo compiling GPSDrive # ./build.sh gpsdrive /opt/gpsdrive tar #build from the tar file ./build.sh gpsdrive /opt/gpsdrive #build from the cvs source # echo Moving executables onto Hard Disk ./build.sh cpy # echo Building the gpsdrive.tar.gz package ./build.sh package Build.sh ============= ################################################################ # This script is called from everything.sh # D. Pollard # ################################################################ USB=sda1 # Usb key # LOGFILE=/mnt/$USB/$1.log CONFIGHELP=/mnt/$USB/$1-help.txt UNPACK=/mnt/hda2/unpack # UNPACK=/mnt/hda5/unpack DEST=$2 BUILDFROM=$3 # WORK=/mnt/hda2/work WORK=/work # echo "================================================================" > $LOGFILE echo $1 >> $LOGFILE date >> $LOGFILE echo "================================================================" >> $LOGFILE # export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig ############################################################## # Autoconf ############################################################## # Reuired for the build # Version 1.79 comes with knoppix and 1.9 is required to build # gpsdrive. Current version appears to be 2.5 if [ "$1" == "autoconf" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir autoconf cd autoconf tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " unpack status " $? cd autoconf-2.59 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure status " $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status " $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status " $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make install staus " $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf autoconf >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 fi ############################################################## # Automake ############################################################## # Required for the build. # Version 1.79 comes with knoppis and 1.9 is required to build # gpsdrive. Current version appears to be 1.96 if [ "$1" == "automake" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir automake cd automake tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " unpack status " $? cd automake-1.9.6 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure status " $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status " $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status " $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make install staus " $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf automake >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 fi ############################################################## # Pkgconfig ############################################################## # Requied for the build on DSL (not for the runtime) if [ "$1" == "pkgconfig" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir pkgconfig cd pkgconfig tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/pkg-config-0.19.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " unpack status " $? cd pkg-config-0.19 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure status " $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make clean status "$? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make status " $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status "$? cd $UNPACK rm -rf pkgconfig >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 fi ############################################################## # Gettext ############################################################## # Required for the build on DSL (not for the runtime) if [ "$1" == "gettext" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir gettext cd gettext tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/gettext-0.14.5.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " unpack status " $? cd gettext-0.14.5 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure status " $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make clean status " $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make status " $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status " $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf gettext >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 fi ############################################################## # Glib ############################################################## # It looks like glib is alrdady part of Knoppix but it is not in DSL # Required for the runtime (not for the build) I think if [ "$1" == "glib" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir glib cd glib tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/glib-2.8.1.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd glib-2.8.1 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf glib >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################## # Freetype ############################################################## # Required by atk and cairo for the run time if [ "$1" == "freetype" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir freetype cd freetype tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd freetype-2.1.10 chmod -R 777 * >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Chmod Status" $? ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo "Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf freetype >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################## # Expat ############################################################## # Required by fontconfig if [ "$1" == "expat" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir expat cd expat tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/expat-1.95.8.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd expat-1.95.8 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Config status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Staus" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf expat >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################## # Fontconfig ############################################################## # Required by atk for the run time if [ "$1" == "fontconfig" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir fontconfig cd fontconfig tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd fontconfig-2.3.2 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP echo "-------------- Configure starts here ---------------" >> $LOGFILE ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? echo "-------------- Make clan starts here ---------------" >> $LOGFILE make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? echo "--------------- Make starts here ----------------" >> $LOGFILE make -j1 >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make status" $? echo "--------------- Make Install starts here ------------------" >> $LOGFILE # fix permission problem chmod 777 -R /usr/share/fonts >> $LOGFILE make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf fontcontig >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################## # Freetype ############################################################## # Required for the runtime (not for the build) # This package requires the following packages # freetype # fontconfig if [ "$1" == "atk" ] then ldconfig # need this line so glib can be found cd $UNPACK mkdir atk cd atk tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/atk-1.10.1.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd atk-1.10.1 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf atk >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################### # Pango ############################################################### # Required for the runtime if [ "$1" == "pango" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir pango cd pango tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/pango-1.10.0.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd pango-1.10.0 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf pango >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################### # Cairo ############################################################### # Required for the runtime if [ "$1" == "cairo" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir cairo cd cairo tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/cairo-1.0.2.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd cairo-1.0.2 >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST --disable-ps --disable-pdf >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? # -j1 limit the number of concurrent jobs to one. # work around for "libtool link error Object Name Conflicts. make -j 1 --keep-going >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf cairo >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ############################################################### # Gtk ############################################################### # Required for the runtime if [ "$1" == "gtk" ] then cd $UNPACK mkdir gtk cd gtk tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/gtk+-2.8.3.tar.gz >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? cd gtk+-2.8.3 ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Configure Status" $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Clean Status" $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Status" $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Make Install Status" $? cd $UNPACK rm -rf gtk >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 exit 0 fi ################################################################ # Gps Drive ################################################################A # Update CVS (get the latest bleeding edge version) ############## if [ "$1" == "cvsupdate" ] then cd /mnt/$USB/source export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gpsdrive.cc:/cvsroot cp .cvspass /root cvs login # Press return for blank PW cvs co gpsdrive >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 # use this to get the lot # cvs up gpsdrive >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 # use this to get an update echo " CVS Checkout status " $? cvs logout fi ############## # Build ############## if [ "$1" == "gpsdrive" ] then if [ "$BUILDFROM" == "tar" ] # otherwise build from CVS source then SOURCE=gpsdrive-2.10pre3-cvs-version23-10.tar.gz ARCHIVE_DIR=gpsdrive-2.10pre3 cd $UNPACK mkdir gpsdrive cd gpsdrive tar -xvzf /mnt/$USB/source/$SOURCE >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo " Unpack Status" $? else ARCHIVE_DIR=/mnt/$USB/source/gpsdrive fi cd $ARCHIVE_DIR # /opt running out of space. remove openoffice rm -rf /opt/openoffice ./configure --help > $CONFIGHELP ./configure --prefix=$DEST --disable-garmin >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo Configure Status $? make clean >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo Make Clean Status $? make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo Make Status $? make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo Make Install Status $? cd $UNPACK if [ "$BUILDFROM" == "tar" ] then rm -rf gpsdrive >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 fi exit 0 fi ################################################################ # Copy the files to working folder on Hard Disk ################################################################ if [ "$1" == "cpy" ] then # Probably already mounted # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 cd /opt cp -Pr gpsdrive $WORK/opt >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 # Additional Libraries and Links ln -s $WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib/libpangocario-1.0.so.0.1000.0 $WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 ln -s i$WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1000.0 $WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 cp /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 $WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib cp /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 $WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib cp /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 $WORK/opt/gpsdrive/lib fi ################################################################ # Create the Package for DSL ################################################################# if [ "$1" == "package" ] then cd $WORK echo "Current working direcory..." pwd # Make the install dir mkdir opt # Make the Icon item mkdir home mkdir home/dsl mkdir home/dsl/.xtdesktop # Copy the Icon and the .lnk desktop icon file cp /mnt/$USB/gpsdrive.lnk home/dsl/.xtdesktop/Gpsdrive.lnk cp /mnt/$USB/gpsdrive.gif home/dsl/.xtdesktop/Gpsdrive.gif # Make the menu item # TODO # mkdir var # mkdir var/tmp # mkdir var/tmp/mydsl.menu # cp /mnt/$USB/gpsdrive-menu.txt var/tmp/mydsl.menu/gpsdrive # Fix file ownership chown -R 0.0 ./{opt/,var/} chown -R 1001.50 ./home/dsl/ # chown 1001.50 ./var/tmp/mydsl.menu/gpsdrive # Remove the old archive if any rm -f gpsdrive.tar.gz # Create the file list find . > files.txt # Remove unwanted files from the list # -v sends all non matching lines to the output file # -x matches the whole line only echo "Building the files list " cat files.txt \ | grep -vx . \ | grep -vx ./opt \ | grep -v /man/ \ | grep -vx /man \ | grep -v /include \ | grep -v /doc \ | grep -v /gtk-doc \ | grep -vx ./home \ | grep -vx ./home/dsl \ | grep -vx ./var \ | grep -vx ./var/tmp \ | grep -vx .var/tmp/mydsk.menu \ | grep -vx ./files.txt \ | grep -v .gpsdrive.tar \ > includedfiles.txt echo "Build file list status " $? # Create the archive echo " Creating the Archive " tar -cvf gpsdrive.tar --no-recursion --numeric-owner -T includedfiles.txt >> $LOGFILE echo " Create Archive Status " $? echo " Compressing the Archive (please wait) " gzip -9 gpsdrive.tar echo " Compress Archive Status " $? # Create an info file # TODO # Create an md5sum # TODO md5sum gpsdrive.tar.gz > gpsdrive.tar.gz.md5.txt fi ################################################################ Start.sh ============ When you want to start GPSdrive on DSL you will need something like this to start the program. This is so the libraries can all be found. LOGFILE=/opt/gpsdrive/start.log echo "=======================================================================" >> $LOGFILE date >> $LOGFILE export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gpsdrive/lib /opt/gpsdrive/bin/gpsdrive >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 echo "=======================================================================" >> $LOGFILE |