[Xastir] Soundmodem installation error

[John Wilson]

On 08/10/2010 09:10 AM, Robert Mead wrote:
> Or you could just use 'apt-get build-dep soundmodem'.
>
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> On Aug 10, 2010, at 7:02 AM, James Cameron wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:05:18AM -0400, John Wilson wrote:
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>>> /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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Because there isn't a compiled .015 version out yet, I downloaded the 
compressed file and attempted to follow the instructions for 
installation. Should this be installed from the home directory? How can 
I tell if it is installed properly?