[Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu

John Wilson kc4lzn at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 15:03:41 EDT 2010


On 08/02/2010 02:33 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:21:57PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the<kc4lzn at gmail.com>  flavor, containing:
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>> On 08/02/2010 01:20 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:18:40PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the<kc4lzn at gmail.com>   flavor, containing:
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>>>> Is there a "checklist" I can run down to see that I have everything I
>>>> need and if I don't have it, a point where I can get it to properly
>>>> install version 1.9.9?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Yes.  See the wiki "Installation Notes" section on www.xastir.org.  There are
>>> quite explicit steps laid out for getting Xastir built on a variety of systems,
>>> including Ubuntu of several vintages.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>    From the installation notes, verbatim, that is where I am running into
>> the error. When I type in the ./configure...that is where I am receiving
>> the error about Motif Headers. I search for the errors and try to repair
>> from there, only this time, with Motif, I am not getting past. Here is
>> my error:
>>      
> The motif headers should have been installed by the second "apt-get install"
> line in the "Start Installing Packages" section of the wiki instructions:
>
> sudo apt-get install cvs autoconf automake xorg-dev imagemagick gv libxp-dev lesstif2-dev libcurl3-dev
>
> Try redoing it and see if it gives you any indication of why it's failing to
> install "lesstif2-dev".
>
>    
This is what I got after I got past the motif error./

xastir 1.9.8 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

MINIMUM OPTIONS:
   ShapeLib (Vector maps) ................. : yes (internal)

RECOMMENDED OPTIONS:
   GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : yes (ImageMagick)
   pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : no
   dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : no
   rtree indexing (Shapefile speedups) .... : yes
   map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : no
   internet map retrieval ................. : yes (libcurl)

FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:
   AX25 (Linux Kernel I/O Drivers) ........ : no
   libproj (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : yes
   GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
   Festival (Text-to-speech) .............. : no
   GDAL/OGR (Obtuse map formats) .......... : no
   GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) ....... : yes

xastir will be installed in /usr/local/bin.
Type 'make' to build Xastir (Use 'gmake' instead on some systems).
john at john-hpmini:~/xastir$ /

Where there are "no's" do I need to install those packages?

John




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