[Xastir] dbinfo on Ubuntu 9.10

[Ray Wells]

I recently compiled xastir on a clean 'buntu 9.10 installation. I 
followed the wiki and xastir worked first time.

Ray vk2tv

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:56:57PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
>   
>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Robert Rogers wrote:
>>
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>>> A long time ago I had dbfinfo working.... Of course that was 4 machines
>>> ago....
>>>
>>> I tried to get it going on a couple of my laptops and it bombed out on
>>> install...  Is there a trick specific to Ubuntu or something else....
>>>       
>> Check that you have PCRE plus the PCRE development headers installed
>> before running configure.
>>     
>
> That's dbfawk, not dbfinfo.  dbfinfo is one of the "contrib" programs from
> shapelib --- and is not installed by the shapelib package on Ubuntu.  The only
> option is to build shapelib from source and descend into the contrib directory
> to build it.
>
> Haven't tried that lately.  Might try on my 9.10 virtual machine and see if
> there's some oddness that needs fixed.
>
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