[Xastir] Soundmodem installation error

Robert Mead rmead at justconnected.net
Tue Aug 10 09:10:20 EDT 2010


Or you could just use 'apt-get build-dep soundmodem'.


On Aug 10, 2010, at 7:02 AM, James Cameron wrote:

> 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/
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