[Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu

[Robert Mead]

Perhaps you meant ./configure in the current directory? Otherwise ./bootstrap.sh should do it

On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:19 PM, John Wilson <kc4lzn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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