[Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu

[Jerry Dunmire]

Something to watch out for on Ubuntu. During the 7.x series they
changed the default shell from bash to dash. dash is not bash and
scripts that require bash functionality and do not specify
'#!/bin/bash' at the top of the script will fail in wild and wonderful
ways.

Personally, the first thing I do after a new Ubuntu install is run:
   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
and tell it to NOT install dash as /bin/sh. Of course this is contrary
to Ubuntu recommendations.

73,
...jerry
KA6HDL


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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