[Xastir] Install Problems with CentOS

[Tate]

Eric Christensen wrote:
> So I thought that CentOS would be close enough to Fedora to use those
> instructions.  So I followed these instructions,
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora, to install Xastir.
> Ran into a couple of problems...
> 
> First, I attempted to install libgeotiff.  I could never get the "make"
> to work.  I kept getting the following error:
> make: autoconf: Command not found
> make: *** [configure] Error 127
> 
> I was able to "make" in the previous steps just not this one.
> 
> My second problem was with getting the Xastir files from SourceForge.
> When I used CVS and hit "enter" at the "CVS password" prompt nothing
> would happen.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas for me on these problems, please?
> 
> 73s,
> Eric KF4OTN
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Hey Eric,

What does:
$rpm -q autoconf

Show you?

On mine, I get:
autoconf-2.59-12

No idea if the Fedora repositories work for CentOS or not - but if 
there's something configured in the way of repositories, you could try 
the ol 'yum install autoconf <enter>' - see what that gets ya.

73, Tate