Dedicated Notebook for OpenCPN

[allanpeda]

I have a notebook with a fresh install of Ubuntu Natty, and I would like to install OpenCPN. The non-beta compiles, but though it did start up, after I added over a GB of charts it crashes (too lazy to just install the local charts).

Though I program for a living, I am not eager to start a research project. What is the recommended (expedient) way to get up and running? Should I try to compile a beta from the git repo, install another version of Ubuntu, patch something more here (I had to edite something for Cmake a while back), or install Navigatrix instead?

If I must I will use my (other) Windows 7 notebook, but I'd rather have a dedicated older machine on the boat.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04"

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1015536 kB
MemFree: 18416 kB

Disk has 89 GB free.
The crash message:

*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./opencpn terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0x770edf0]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe4cca)[0x770dcca]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__strcpy_chk+0x3f)[0x770d05f]
./opencpn(_ZN6S57ObjC1EPcP13wxInputStreamdd+0xc42)[0x81eac02]
./opencpn(_ZN8s57chart20BuildRAZFromSENCFileERK8wxSt ring+0x732)[0x81f3482]
./opencpn(_ZN8s57chart8PostInitE13ChartInitFlag11Col orScheme+0x3e)[0x81f42ee]
./opencpn(_ZN8s57chart4InitERK8wxString13ChartInitFl ag+0x2b3)[0x81ff173]
./opencpn(_ZN7ChartDB19OpenChartUsingCacheEi13ChartI nitFlag+0x319)[0x80d4a49]
./opencpn(_ZN7ChartDB25OpenStackChartConditionalEP10 ChartStackib13ChartTypeEnum15ChartFamilyEnum+0x156 )[0x80d5316]
./opencpn(_ZN7MyFrame13DoChartUpdateEv+0xc70)[0x80c5150]
./opencpn(_ZN5MyApp6OnInitEv+0x304f)[0x80cb74f]
/usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0(_Z7wxEntryRiPPw+0x78)[0x3fdc68]
/usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0(_Z7wxEntryRiPPc+0x37)[0x3fdd27]
./opencpn(main+0x1b)[0x80af94b]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x763fe37]
./opencpn[0x80aa721]

[allanpeda]

I should have thought to try the binary. Somehow I think I tried months and and it was a problem. I tried (again) and it seems the deb package installs and runs fine, though the notebook locked up when I left OpenCPN running overnight.

So
sudo dpkg -i opencpn_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb

Does a good working install on Natty (so far). I turned sleep mode off and will try again.

[gaea]

If you have a dedicated laptop, why not try Navigatrix?
http://www.navigatrix.net