[Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

Tom's posting from June regarding a fixed version of Proj.4:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:58:52 -0600
From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
To: Bob Nielsen <n7xy at clearwire.net>
Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 9.04 howto now on Xastir wiki

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:01:20AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n7xy at clearwire.net> flavor, containing:
>
> On Jun 27, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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