[Xastir] Ubuntu/CVS/Game plan

[Stephen Brown Jr]

Darryl,
    I had a real time installing the latest CVS build under Ubuntu 6.06 but
I did get it working. There were countless libraries and other things I had
to change in order to get it working, unfortunately I did so much I can't
remember half of what I did. There is an alternative solution if all you
care about is running the latest version of Xastir, there is a way to
install it from Edgy's repositories. I found a tool called prevu on the
Ubuntu forums that essentially allows you to backport applications from Edgy
to Dapper. I did this lastnight and it worked flawlessly. The latest version
is sitting the Edgy repositories(1.8.2)

If your interested in building completely from source, I can dig up the
emails I have with solutions to some of the problems I had and I'll try and
help as best as I can. I would eventually like to see this built as a .deb
package specifically for Ubuntu complete with dependencies etc.

On 10/30/06, Darryl Gibson <n2diy at losch.net> wrote:
>
> Now I'm going to take another shot at doing a CVS install of Xastir on
> Ubuntu 6.06.
>
> Ubuntu's current version of Xastir installed without a hitch with
> Synaptic.
>
> Now, my plan is to un-install Xastir, and fetch the latest CVS stable
> version.
>
> I'm doing this on a clean machine, with a fresh, install of Ubuntu.
>
> Are there any flaws in this plan?
> --
> Darryl Gibson N2DIY
> RLU X 182668/379552
>
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