[Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:01:20AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n7xy at clearwire.net> flavor, containing:
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> On Jun 27, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
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> >
> > Just a warning.  This doesn't impact Xastir directly, but does  
> > impact *anything*
> > else that uses proj.4 (QGIS, GRASS, or GDAL tools).  If you build  
> > proj.4 from
> > source, you also need to build libgeotiff from source -- otherwise the
> > package management system will install the broken one anyway.
> 
> How about installing proj.4 using 'checkinstall'.  That way the  
> package manager should recognize it and not install the broken version.

Oh yeah, I always forget about that.

If one were to configure --prefix=/usr and use checkinstall then this would 
probably work.

Apperently there's a PPA that has a fixed version of proj.4:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable

if one is less inclined to do source builds or mess around with checkinstall.
This was pointed out in the launchpad bug relating to proj.4.

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