[Xastir] xastir in Ubuntu

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:19:22PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:01:04PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <greg at eigsti.com> flavor, containing:
> > At home this evening I followed the instructions on the Ubunto howto and am
> > still not able to get the motif packages...  Good news is that I was able to
> > get gdal built via get-maptools.sh after following the howto steps.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > greg at ubuntu:~/src/HAM/xastir$ sudo apt-get install libmotif-dev
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Package libmotif-dev is not available, but is referred to by another
> > package.
> 
> 
> Which Ubuntu version are you running?  On my Ubuntu 6.10, I see that
> libmotif3 and libmotif-dev were both obtained from the Multiverse repository.
> Do you have this repository enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list file
> (or in Synaptic)?
> 
> Lesstif is in the "universe" repository, because of its different license.

ANd I see that this essential bit of information is missing from the HowTo,
because it was originally written describing how to get xastir working with
lesstif --- I'm editing the wiki page now to add the instructions to
add multiverse.

> > On 3/1/07 2:50 PM, "Tom Russo" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:53:41AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > > collision of the <nielsen at oz.net> flavor, containing:
> > >> 
> > >> On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Greg Eigsti wrote:
> > >> 
> > >>> What is the name of the OpenMotif package under Ubuntu?
> > >>> 
> > >> 
> > >> You will need libmotif3 and libmotif-dev.
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > For all of your information, I list the entire set of packages that are
> > > needed to build xastir from source on Ubuntu 6.10 on the xastir wiki page
> > > <http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_6.10>
> > > This includes the OpenMotif package, and describes how to switch from
> > > lesstif to openmotif if you've already installed xastir with the other
> > > library.
> > > 
> > > It is rather straightforward, but there are a lot of packages to download.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
 one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
 oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick