[btth@localhost ~]$ rpm -q gpsdrive
package gpsdrive is not installed
[btth@localhost ~]$

Is that just because it’s not an rpm? Or did I leave something out somewhere?

It does have one oddity : when I command “gpsdrive &” it doesn’t free up that terminal, but goes on printing messages to it, even after I quit gpsdrive, until I hit ^C.

I *think* this is a setting inside gpsdrive somewhere, analogous to the -v switch on a lot of commands; and it’s a good idea, insmuch as I should learn to understand those messages. But I thought perhaps I ought to report it here.

Thanks again!

It all worked. Many many thanks!

Now I just have to learn to use it.

Can I do that in combination with legacy proprietary map software (for M$, alas!) that I already have, with a lot of data, from Garmin and from maptech.com?

I have both of the above installed under Crossover Office (CXO) 5.0.1; and they open and work — except that they don’t connect to either of my Garmin GPSs (an etrex vista and a rino 120) — but, so far, neither does gpsdrive …

At any rate, I’m *way* to hell and gone further along than I was yesterday evening. Now at absolute dead *worst* I should be able to start over with gpsdrive. And *that* means, before long, I’ll be able to quit using the legacy software — and therefore wipe XP off my best machine, and have an M$-free house again.

I can’t thank you enough. Let me know if you ever have occasion to pass through west*ern* Virginia!

$ su -
# mkdir gpsdrive-stuff
# cd gpsdrive-stuff
# wget http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/gpsdrive-2.10pre2.tar.gz
# tar xzf gpsdrive-2.10pre2.tar.gz
# cd gpsdrive-2.10pre2
#  nano -w configure

Here, replace the line

if $CC -dumpversion|egrep -q "^3.*"; then

to

if $CC -dumpversion|egrep -q "^4.*"; then

(you don’t need any configure.orig file)

Be sure to have gtk2-devel and libpcre3-dev installed (with all dependencies):

# yum install gtk2-devel
# yum install pcre-devel

Now configure, make and install:

# ./configure
# make
# make install

As a normal user, start gpsdrive:

$ gpsdrive

Hope this helps, please let me know how it goes

(I guess all you need to do is to do a yum install pcre-devel and then configure, make and install)

Cheers

[....]
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.6 gthread-2.0… yes
checking PKGCONFIG_CFLAGS… -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking PKGCONFIG_LIBS… -pthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0
checking for pcre-config… no
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
configure: error: pcre-config not found please install libpcre3-dev or similar
[root@localhost gpsdrive-2.10pre2]# yum install
^^^^^^^^^^^
libpcre3-dev
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: libpcre3-dev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nothing to do
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[root@localhost gpsdrive-2.10pre2]#

I think I have this much figured out. First I had to do “cp configure configure.orig” (There wasn’t anyconfigure.orig.) I did that.

Then I get into configure, in my case with “nano -w configure” and find the line

if test “$CC” = “gcc” ; then

I did that.

Now I have to switch the 3 in the next line to a 4 — right? And do the needful housekeeping?

Apparently, to people familiar with the diff command (and all I knew was that some such command existed), your first gray box up there shows what that is, and you assume knkowledge of how to do it. Here I fail.

I can turn the 3 into a 4 all right. It seems possible that that’s it: close the editor, and go do “./configure” “make” and “install” in sequence, each when the preceeding finishes. (I have heard of make and of install, but never dared touch either, nor have I read up on them — the man page looks about as digestible as eating an elephant.)

Incidentally (or maybe not so incidentally), about su :

I keep a terminal by itself on one workspace, with several tabs — a couple have different-color background, and are permanently on su – root; I use them like a porcupine making love, but I do use them, and keep them handy. (This is at home, with no one around likely to touch my keyboard, ever.) (I know, I should buckle down and learn sudo — some day … But I haven’t yet.)

So I’ve been doing all of this as root. (Since I have to do things like rpm and yum commands as root, I just download everything into /home/btth, go to it with a root tab cd’d to /home/btth, and do everything from there on as root.) Only if I get something like CXO’s explanation of the difference between doing a thing as user do I do otherwise.

So if that is wrong, and I should start over, without becoming root till you have that su, please say so.