[Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Lee Bengston wrote:

> One key was pointing the package manager, YaST, toward the right
> repositories.  I just did YaST searches on all the pertinent packages such
> as GraphicsMagick, pcre, Berkeley, etc. and managed to find them all.
>
> I never could have done it without the info in the installation notes for
> openSUSE in the Wiki.  The info there didn't exactly apply to version 10.2,
> but it got me into the servers where I could look around and find the
> 10.2equivalent locations.  The two below are the ones that were
> translated into
> 10.2 versions from the installation notes that show 10.0/10.1 locations.

Would the info in "README" have been adequate as well?  Perhaps with
a bit of info from "INSTALL"?  We'd like enough info distributed
with Xastir itself so that people could install it without having to
refer to the Wiki.


> Building with AX25 ................................. : yes
> Building with Festival ............................. : yes
> Building with GPSMan ............................... : yes
> Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ........... : GraphicsMagick
> Building with libproj .............................. : yes
> Building with GeoTiff .............................. : yes
> Building with GDAL/OGR ............................. : yes
> Building with ShapeLib ............................. : yes
> Building with pcre ................................. : yes
> Building with dbfawk ............................... : yes
> Building with map caching .......................... : yes
> Building with rtree indexing ....................... : yes
> ----------------------------------------------------------

Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed
above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just
overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive
indication for every option?

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