Update to Wifi Radar 2.0.s06

Did this behavior start after upgrading to Karmic Koala beta? There is a major revision in WiFi Radar between Ubuntu versions and some of the ways WR behaved before are no longer valid.

You may want to request that Ubuntu provide the WR 2.0.s06 version in a package, so that you can avoid the manual installation recommended at berlios.de. But, as a starting point for manual installaton, try the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo and http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-source-files-in-ubuntu.html

Actually I did not upgrade to 9.10 yet, since I'm not so advanced with Linux I'm playing it safe and I'm trying to stay out of the betas :-)
Curiously WR begun to act up after a power breakdown where I had to reset my box and wifi connection.
Of course I already tried to uninstall and reinstall the 1.9.9-1.1 version from deb package but it was still as messy.
Thanks for the links I'll try with those (I'll come cry for help if I mess up).

However I still would like to know what was the part 2 from the berlios.de installation guide about :

2. Change to the wifi-radar-x.y.z source directory.

I don't see this command line in your links. Can you (or someone else) please explain this to me (just curious)

Cheers !

Once the wifi-radar-x.y.z.tar.bz2 (e.g. wifi-radar-2.0.s06.tar.bz2) file is untarred (i.e. tar xjf wifi-radar-2.0.s06.tar.bz2), there will be a new subdirectory in the directory (e.g. wifi-radar-2.0.s06) in which one is working. x, y, and z are just place holders for (in this case) the 2, 0, and s06 version numbers.

So, a concrete example is:

sean:~/tmp$ tar xjf wifi-radar-2.0.s06.tar.bz2
sean:~/tmp$ cd wifi-radar-2.0.s06
sean:~/tmp/wifi-radar-2.0.s06$ sudo make install

If this answers your questions, please remember to mark this as solved.

OMG it sucks to be a beginner !!!!

I still can't have it work. This is what I did :

I downloaded the wifi-radar-2.0.s06.tar.bz2 tarball folder on my desktop
I opened it and extracted the wifi-radar-2.0.s06 file in /usr/local/src

Then this is what I did in a terminal :

rastanat@ubuntu:~$ cd /usr/local/src
rastanat@ubuntu:/usr/local/src$ cd wifi-radar-2.0.s06
rastanat@ubuntu:/usr/local/src/wifi-radar-2.0.s06$ sudo make install
test -d /etc/ || install -d -m 755 /etc/
test -d /sbin || install -d -m 755 /sbin
install -m 755 wifi-radar.localized /sbin/wifi-radar
test -d /share/man/man1 || install -d -m 755 /share/man/man1
install -m 644 man/man1/wifi-radar.1 /share/man/man1
test -d /share/man/man5 || install -d -m 755 /share/man/man5
install -m 644 man/man5/wifi-radar.conf.5 /share/man/man5
test -d /share/pixmaps || install -d -m 755 /share/pixmaps
install -m 644 pixmaps/wifi-radar.svg /share/pixmaps
install -m 644 pixmaps/wifi-radar.png /share/pixmaps
test -d /share/applications || install -d -m 755 /share/applications
install -m 644 wifi-radar.desktop /share/applications
rastanat@ubuntu:/usr/local/src/wifi-radar-2.0.s06$
rastanat@ubuntu:/usr/local/src/wifi-radar-2.0.s06$ cd
rastanat@ubuntu:~$

Obviously something happened but I'm not sure what.
The WR icon doesn't show under: Applications>Internet
Basically WR isn't installed.

Where did I go wrong? Sorry to be such a dummy but if you could take me through a step-by-step from the desktop folder that'd be nice.
Thanks.

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