Notices

Thank you for enabling APRS in Mappero, mrcock!

I have written more detailed instructions for Linux newbies on how to install mrcock's code on N900. Please see the attachment.

Note that instead of trying to combine the two zip files, it is easier to download the .deb file from http://code.google.com/p/aprs4maemo/downloads/list

Thank you mrcock for re-enabling APRS in Mappero!

I have made more detailed instructions on how to install the software on N900. For example, N900 does not have repository extras-testing nor unzip installed by default, so I wrote down here how to do it.

--- begin of N900-APRS-HOWTO.txt --
HOW TO GET MAPPERO WITH APRS SUPPORT

Document version 1.5 2011-12-06 by Juhani Jaakola OH1FSS

BACKGROUND

Old versions of Mappero had APRS support. To get APRS support into latest Mappero (version 3.2), the following is needed.

INSTALLATION

- install Mappero 3.2 (in Application manager)
- install rootsh (in Application manager)
- enable application repository extras-testing

See wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#How_to_activate_Extras-testing

Application manager, menu, Application catalogs, New
Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

- Download the following three attached files from the earlier post of mrcock

N900_APRS.zip
maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en01.zip (rename this to maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.z01)
maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.zip

- Combine .z01 and .zip and extract maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.deb from them

$ cat maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.z01 maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.zip > m.zip
$ unzip m.zip

- Transfer N900_APRS.zip and maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.deb to N900, for example to directory /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/

- execute in X terminal:

$ sudo gainroot
# apt-get install unzip
# <Ctrl-D>
$ cd /home/user/MyDocs/.Maps
$ unzip ../.documents/N900_APRS.zip
$ mv N900_APRS/aprs/ .
$ mv N900_APRS/maemo-mapper-aprs.png .
$ mv N900_APRS/poi.db .
$ sudo gainroot
# dpkg --install ../.documents/maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.deb
(lots of errors: Unknown freedesktop.org field 'generic-icon'.)
# cp -p /home/user/MyDocs/.Maps/maemo-mapper-aprs.png /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/
# <Ctrl-D>

- Now set up Mappero according to instructions by mrcock earlier in this thread

- Do NOT enable map correction (should be used only in China)!

OPTIONAL (I didn't execute these)

- Enable suid bit for TNC use (serial connection via Bluetooth to TNC)

# chmod +s /usr/bin/hcitool
# chmod +s /usr/bin/rfcomm
--- end of N900-APRS-HOWTO.txt ---

After these steps you may want to disable repository extras-testing in Application Manager.