[Xastir] New Xastir virtual machine with Xubuntu 8.04 available.

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:50:55PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to the enthusiasm of Lee Bengston, there is a new pre-built Xastir
> > virtual machine running the latest version of Xubuntu (Ubuntu with the 
> > lightweight Xfce desktop) available.
> > 
> > Lee was motivated to create the machine and sent it to me for testing, and 
> > I updated it with the very latest VMware tools available in VMware Workstation.
> 
> All very cool stuff!
> 
> Does this VM support updating Xastir code from
> CVS/compiling/installing?

Yes, all libraries and headers required for building Xastir are installed.
All except GDAL and festival, that is --- GDAL is barely used in Xastir
and not worth building in for most users, and not including festival is just
a habit at this point.

I do not recall whether the VM contains a current checkout of CVS Xastir or
not, and I'm not near a machine with the VM installed for at least another
few hours.  If Lee knows the answer perhaps he'll pipe in before then, but
regardless I'll double check tonight and see.  When I had built the earlier
VMs I always had a CVS checkout and a build directory there ready to go,
and Lee emulated my approach when he built this VM, so I'm guessing there
is.

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