[Xastir] New xastir
Bob Nielsen
nielsen at oz.net
Sat Jan 10 08:56:13 EST 2004
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:43:50PM -0800, Curt Mills wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:
>
> > Once you downloaded the file did you get it untar'd/unzip'd? One
> > command that will do this is "tar -zxvf whateverthefileis.tar.gz".
> >
> > Once you have the file opened you can change into the "xastir"
> > directory it will create. Read the files INSTALL and README
> > completely. If you follow them step-by-step and to the letter you
> > should end up with a working installation. If, after doing this, you
> > have questions post them to the list and we'll all do our best to
> > assist.
> >
> > Welcome to the club.
>
> And once you do that process once, the next installation from
> source, whatever the package is, will seem easy. You'll really be
> one of the linux crowd then!
>
> Many of the people on this list have had extensive experience in
> installing packages from source. You'll get a lot of help here.
Then before you know it you'll be running 'cvs update' twice a day and
wondering why only a few files changed!
73, Bob N7XY
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