[Xastir] Crash and Restore

[Darryl Gibson]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:13:05PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n2diy at losch.net> flavor, containing:
> 
> [I'll bite, but can't promise results]

Roger that.
> 
>> Here are my results:
>>
>>
>> darryl at Chatto:~/src/xastir$ ./bootstrap.sh
>>     6) Removing autom4te.cache directory...
>>     5) Running aclocal...
>> ./bootstrap.sh: line 16: aclocal: command not found
> 
> You need to fix this before proceeding.  Make sure autoconf and automake are 
> installed.  The message above indicates that they are not.  Until you fix that
> problem, nothing else will work.

Well, both apt-get and Synaptic reported them to be installed, but 
Synaptic error ed out trying to remove them. I removed, and re-installed 
them with apt-get, still no joy.

>> darryl at Chatto:~/src/xastir$ ./configure
>> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
> 
> Of course not.  Automake and autoconf aren't installed, so configure was not 
> created.

Hey, the system told me they were installed, something is munged big 
time, somewhere.

>> darryl at Chatto:~/xastir$ ./configure
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> 
> This only worked because you apparently had an old configure script from a 
> previous boostrap in that directory.  It didn't work in ~/src/xastir because 
> it was a fresh checkout --- the configure script doesn't exist until bootstrap
> runs with no error messages.

That should no longer be a problem, "locate xastir" now returns nothing.

> I don't have an answer for your missing libXm.so issue --- that is a shared 
> library that is part of the Motif package (either OpenMotif or Lesstif 
> depending on what your favorite flavor was).  Check that both the motif and 
> -dev packages for it are installed.

Once again, I relied on Synaptic to tell me there status, and now, 
double checking with apt-get, I'm getting a different answer.

darryl at Chatto:~$ sudo apt-get install lesstif
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package lesstif is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package lesstif has no installation candidate

darryl at Chatto:~$ sudo apt-get install lesstif-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   lesstif1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   lesstif2-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   lesstif-dev lesstif1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1397kB of archives.
After unpacking 1171kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
darryl at Chatto:~$

So, Synaptic, and apt-get aren't playing on the same page. Synaptic was 
telling me things are installed ok, and apt-get is telling me a 
different story.

Now I'm not sure what to think, was it my backup/restore that munged 
things, or did the package repos change, or both?

I'm putting this install down, and re-installing Ubuntu from scratch. 
I'll get all of my hard drive back, clean up fstab, and start off from a 
clean slate.

73
-- 
Darryl Gibson N2DIY
RLU X 182668/379552

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