[Xastir] no maps

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:06:55PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
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>  I also tried compiling Xastir 1.91 from CVS on a clean installation of
>  Kubuntu 7.04, but unfortunately there were errors.  Next time I think I'll
>  try the 1.9.0 source from Sourceforge.

What were the errors?  You should be able to follow the "HowTo:Ubuntu 6.10 and 
7.04" instructions (<http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_6.10>)
on the xastir wiki to install Xastir CVS on your Kubuntu 7.04 virtual machine.
It should get you from a bare install to a working xastir in only a few
steps.  Just a bunch of apt-gets and some script runs to do.

If you have problems, rather than backing of to an older source distribution,
try posting the errors here and we can probably get you squared away.  I've 
installed Xastir onto 3 Ubuntu 7.04 machines already; I  wrote the 
wiki instructions while doing the first one, and did the other two by
following the steps I had just posted on the wiki, so the Wiki instructions 
should get you all the way there.  If they don't, perhaps there's been a 
change in the Ubuntu repositories that break the instructions in the last
few days.  We should get them fixed if that's the case.

>  I have had really good results installing Ubuntu/Kubuntu clean under VMware
>  Player.  If anyone is interested, I documented it at
>  http://www.175moonlight.com/VMware.

That's pretty cool, but by doing it this way you have no way of installing
the VMware tools that make the virtual machine much more robust and functional.
The tools can only be installed by the free VMware Server or the $200ish
VMware Workstation.

Without the vmware tools you get reduced functionality of your mouse and 
the virtualized display adapter.  It also allows cut/paste and drag/drop
between host and guest.  The very latest vmware tools even support
"autofit" of the guest operating system to the player window. (That version
of the tools is a bit newer than the Xubuntu/Xastir VM that is available for 
download, though, so that VM still requires some convoluted steps
to change the display resolution of the guest).

I highly recommend trying to use the free VMware Server to create virtual
machines instead of using non-vmware tools (even though it's pretty cool
to use QEMU to create the VM disks).  Since VMware Server is freely 
downloadable there's no real reason not to use it anymore like there was 
before VMware had free products.  The VMware tools are worth the extra hassle
of downloading the server.

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