GPS Manager User Manual -- Downloading

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## Downloading

### GPSMan

GPSMan (version 5.4.1) is available for downloading from the GPSMan site. Both Debian, Slackware ad RPM packages are available for easy installation in Linux on i386 architectures. Updates for the current release can also be found there.

In order to run GPSMan, Tcl/Tk (version 8.2 or later; 8.3 is recommended) must be previously installed. It can be got from the Active State site.

### Conversion of MapBlast waypoints

A separate program to convert the waypoints listed in HTML pages of the MapBlast site into GPSMan files is also available under the name of `mb2gmn.tcl`. At its core is code contributed by Martin Ostermann (Aachen University of Technology). The reason why this code was not integrated into GPSMan is that the format of those HTML pages does not follow any known specification and may change at any time.

In order to run `mb2gmn.tcl` GPSMan must be installed as they share some source files. After downloading, the file `mb2gmn.tcl`, which can be found in the `util` directory, should be edited for configuration.

To use this program HTML pages produced at the MapBlast site in answer to queries under the `Directions` section should be saved locally and then opened from the program.

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