Bug#948702: opencpn: Opencpn package is incomplete, adding external plugins is blocked

[Alec Leamas]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:14:27 +0100 Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:37:30 +0100 Huub Reuver <hreuver at aoi-karin.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > A minimal configuration for opencpn includes at least the following
> > plugins:
> > - opencpn-plugin-objsearch
> > - oesenc-pi
> > - opencpn-plugin-draw
> > 
> > I need charts, I need to notate and I need to find unknown locations.
> > Without these opencpn is plainly useless.
> > 
> > Those plugin packages are not available from Debian.
> > First problem is gshhs dependency (there might be more).
> 
> Is this a static, package dependency? I cannot reproduce any such
> problems on sid using:

OTOH, plugins does not work since they are linked against gtk2; opencpn
is linked against gtk3.

The net result is the same: the solution is the upstream plugin
installer, under way but not ready as of now.

--alec