[Xastir] Soundmodem installation error

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:05:18AM -0400, John Wilson wrote:
> /Looking at Synaptic, there is overwhelming references to GTK.
> Because of the light nature of Lubuntu, what specifically is Xastir
> looking for that I need to additionally install?

You said soundmodem in subject but Xastir here.  I'm guessing you mean
soundmodem.  If so, probably the package libgtk2.0-dev

To find a list of other likely packages that will be required, you might
do this, which I have done ...

$ cd /tmp
$ apt-get source soundmodem # fetch current packaged version
$ grep -i build-depends soundmodem-0.15/debian/control
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), flex-old, libgtk2.0-dev, libaudiofile-dev, libasound2-dev [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386], libxml2-dev, libhamlib-dev

This tells you that in order to build from source for 0.15 you probably need
those packages.  So you might satisfy all likely dependencies with:

apt-get install flex-old libgtk2.0-dev libaudiofile-dev libasound2-dev libxml2-dev libhamlib-dev

Sometimes a newer version may depend on something else.  When that
happens it gets more interesting.  Asking the developers of the package
is one last resort.  ;-}

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/