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Paul Wise (Debian) (pabs) wrote : Re: [Bug 2030267] [NEW] Foxtrotgps doesn't connect to my internal GPS data

Check your system logs to see if there is an AppArmor/SELinux denial.

If you have a spare external USB GPS available, maybe try using that
instead, to see if it is a software problem or a GPS problem.

You could also download a Debian 12 live image, boot it and try to see
if that works too. Maybe also try Debian 10/11 live images. You can do
`apt update` and `apt install gpsd foxtrotgps` on the live images too.

Since the FoxtrotGPS POIs are just in an sqlite database, it should be
easy to automate the conversion of GPS fixes to FoxtrotGPS POIs, the
georss2foxtrotgps-poi script should be good inspiration for that. If
you write a new script for it, we can add that to the repository for
other folks to use too.

FoxtrotGPS is quite a simple app, you might be better served by
something with more features and maintainers like opencpn or qgis.

https://opencpn.org
https://qgis.org/

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pabs

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