[Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu

[John Wilson]

On 8/3/2010 9:41 AM, John Wilson wrote:
> On 8/2/2010 4:26 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 04:21:01PM -0400, we recorded a 
>> bogon-computron collision of the<kc4lzn at gmail.com>  flavor, containing:
>>> On 08/02/2010 04:05 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:52:07PM -0400, we recorded a 
>>>> bogon-computron collision of the<kc4lzn at gmail.com>   flavor, 
>>>> containing:
>>>>> I followed these instructions on the CVS Update portion of the site:
>>>>>
>>>>> /Here are the commands to do if you want a clean build of the latest
>>>>> sources, and want configure to recheck all the libraries and header
>>>>> files that Xastir needs: /
>>>>>
>>>> This is not the text in the "Updating Xastir" section of the Ubuntu 
>>>> 10.04
>>>> document (http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_10.04).  Which 
>>>> wiki page are
>>>> you reading (post the URL)? That could be where you're going wrong.
>>> Wow...Never saw that one.
>>>
>>> This is the page I was working from...
>>>
>>> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Notes:CVS
>> Ah.  Well, that would explain all the headaches you're having.  The
>> Ubuntu-specific one would have served you better, as it lays it all out
>> in a simple step-by-step process precisely tailored to the exact system
>> you're using.  The page you referenced is one of the "General Notes" 
>> and is
>> more of a wikified version of a document that comes with Xastir 
>> source giving
>> general information about CVS (README.CVS in the source tree).
>>
> To close the loop on this...I had a box here with a virgin Ubuntu 
> 10.04 OS installed on it. I followed the instructions to the tee just 
> as Tom had stated, and it worked. No failures, operated as scripted.
>
> Many thanks to Curt and Tom for their direction and patience. Lesson 
> learned...make sure I have the proper instructions for the OS I have 
> in hand. 73 all and look forward to working with the group.
>
> John
One other issue I wanted to note on this and guess I'm not totally out 
of the woods yet, the successful test I did yesterday in loading Xastir 
1.9.9 was on Ubuntu 10.04.

Today, I made the attempt to load on Lubuntu 10.04 and received a 
failure at the point where you install Xastir. After typing 
../configure, I received "bash:  ../configure: No such file or directory."

With Lubuntu being a "light" version, is it possible that some necessary 
files are not available to work at the same level as Ubuntu?

73 John