[needs packaging] Roadnav car navigation system

[oss_test_launchpad]

Roadnav (http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/) is an car navigation system, currently available in a 0.19 version which seems to be somewhat functional. AFAIK, Ubuntu does not yet offer any car navigation system at all.

Just noted that someone already has made a package for 8.04 which would probably be installable with GDebi (http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/downloads.php), so my question is: Could Roadnav possibly become a part of Ubuntu 8.10?

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

I second the emotion.

The deb package for 0.19 worked on my Gusty upgraded to Hardy, but it interferes with gpsd on my pure Hardy laptop. It does not like compiling from source on Hardy, complaining:

wxWidgets version >= 2.6.2... no (version 2.4.5 is not new enough)

GPSdrive is available in the Debian repos, but the version there is old and buggy. Roadnav compliments it nicely.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

libroadnav can be removed as it is only a static lib.

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

Published.
Thanks

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Searching for "roadnav" in Synaptic, there comes nothing.

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Still no joy.

root@dzur:~# lsb_release -ri
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Release: 9.10
root@dzur:~# aptitude search roadnav
root@dzur:~#

Querying getdeb.net fails:

http://www.getdeb.net/updates/?q=roadnav

But going to the old site finds it:

http://old.getdeb.net/search.php?search_distro_id=9&keywords=roadnav

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

It needs to be rebuilt for the repository and tested on karmic.

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Ah.

For what it's worth, I have it running on Karmic.

I hauled in the Hardy package and installed it on a fresh Karmic installation (yesterday). The display is missing everything except the map itself. It's pulling map data more or less successfully (it complains it can't get some files, and then proceeds anyway) and routing.

root@dzur:~# pre roadnav wx | sort
libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-3ubuntu5 i386
libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-3ubuntu5 i386
libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
roadnav 0.19-0~getdeb1 i386

(How did I get two of each of the wx packages, maybe that's my problem?)

I also have it running on another machine, which I upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic. It seems to be running just fine.

ccurley@dragon:~$ pre roadnav wx | sort
libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
roadnav 0.19-1 i386
ccurley@dragon:~$

I'm not sure where I got that package; from the roadnav web site, perhaps.

So recompiling would likely be a good idea. Let me know if I can assist.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking roadnav 0.19-0~getdeb1 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

../include/libroadnav/MapRepresentations.h:42: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'wxColour' with no type
../include/libroadnav/MapRepresentations.h:42: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
../include/libroadnav/MapRepresentations.h:43: error: 'wxColour' does not name a type

Either there are API changes which make this (unmaintained) application unable to compile or there is simply a header missing for including.

wx/wx.h however is included.

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

I'll see shat I can do with this over the weekend. I have the source from http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/downloads.php. Is that the source you are using? If not, where do I get the source you are using?

Thanks

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

This is the source code I use:
roadnav: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/roadnav/roadnav-0.19.tar.gz?download
libroadnav: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/roadnav/libroadnav-0.19.tar.gz?download

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Thanks. Got them. Will see what I can see over the weekend.

[WheelDweller (wheeldweller-deactivatedaccount)]

You might also spend some time with GPSDrive; it's a German project that's bilingual. It's quite mature with lots of nice features like the GPS daemon that lets everything in the car use the GPS. (Or in my case, the trailer.)

http://www.gpsdrive.de

I have no real affiliation with the author or package, other than I've been waiting to get a GPS and plan to one day use it.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Hm, this application also does not seem to be maintained any longer.
Last modified: $Date: 2007-10-13 11:26:46 +0200 (Sa, 13 Okt 2007) $

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Christoph, I did not get the errors you reported in comment 9. Compilation went to completion. I installed the library. The program runs. I still don't see the missing windows I reported in comment 7. Roadnav gave me no error messages.

This is on a new VM with Karmic installed but no updates.

root@roadnav:~# pre wx
libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
libwxbase2.8-dev 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
libwxgtk2.8-dev 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
wx2.8-doc 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 all
wx2.8-headers 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 i386
root@roadnav:~#

I may try downgrading to libwxbase2.6-0 and see if that makes any difference.

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say. I recently installed Karmic on a new hard drive. On that installation I installed the Ubuntu i386 .deb package compiled for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) at http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/downloads.php. It runs just fine. That's the same one that runs just fine on another box which I upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic.

This suggests a deb packaging fix for the problem. I may pursue that.

Meanwhile, I'd suggest you use the gutsy package.

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

OK, compiling from source....

I successfully compiled from source, as noted above. I then ran roadnav from inside the build tree, i.e. "cd .... roadnav ; src/roadnav". It ran as noted above, with just the map showing. I then ran "sudo make install". I ran it on the VM from the main menu (Applications-> Graphics-> Roadnav), and all the widgets showed up. I ran it from the command line, but with now path specification (i.e. the installed version at /usr/local/bin/roadnav). That also worked, and showed all the widgets. Even over an SSH tunnel.

So it looks like compiling from source is also an option.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

I just forgot the libwxgtk2.8-dev dependency.

Thanks.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Package has been built for karmic.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Published.

Thanks.

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roadnav (0.19-1~getdeb1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Rebuild for karmic (LP: #237087)

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:47:55 +0100

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Great, thanks! I'll try it out shortly.

Unfortunately, I just found a bug. It doesn't like the version number of gpsd that comes with Karmic, gpsd 2.39-5. I'll file a separate bug when I can characterize it better.