[Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, John Wilson wrote:

> 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?

Yes.  Particularly if you are installing Xastir from CVS instead of
a tarball.

Make sure you've loaded the autotools stuff:  autoconf and automake,
and that you've run "./bootstrap.sh" in the Xastir directory
successfully.  That builds the "configure" script and the
"Makefile.in" files.

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