[Xastir] d7 receive problem

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:00:06PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> My only suggestion is to install Ubuntu 7.04 instead of 7.10 under the
> (hopefully not too brash) assumption that if 7.10 works fine on your laptop,
> so will 7.04.  Unfortunately the binary version of XASTIR available for 7.04is
> 1.8-something, but there is a good HowTo in the Xastir Wiki for installing
> Xastir from source.  Xastir 1.9x from source has always worked fine for me
> in Kubuntu 7.04.  Based on other messages I saw on this list, it appears
> that Ubuntu 7.10 has switched to Lesstif while 7.04 and earlier use
> OpenMotif, and I believe Xastir does not always get along with Lesstif.

I built Xastir under 7.10 (in a virtual machine).  There is a usable version
of OpenMotif in the ubuntu repositories.  It has always been the case that
you had to enable the "multiverse" repository to get at OpenMotif, but it
is still there and still works.  

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