[Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Lee Bengston]

On 1/19/10, Kevin Ratcliff <kevin at kevinratcliff.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> When Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I tried compiling without xorg-dev, and it
>> worked again.  Although I didn't write the HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04, I
>> mentioned the ability to compile without xorg-dev to Kevin R., who did
>> write it, and I believe he (and later several others following the
>> same HowTo) installed without xorg-dev and did not experience
>> difficulty.  In hindsight snapshots probably didn't work - shows how
>> often a bunch of us actually use that feature.  Because xorg-dev had
>> broken KDE 4 in another distribution, and I hadn't tried Kubuntu 9.04
>> yet, I thought it best to leave out xorg-dev in the 9.04 HowTo given
>> things seemed to work without it.
>
> I have not followed all of the mailing list threads lately, but that's
> my recollection as well. It looks like xorg-dev was in the original
> Ubuntu 9.04 HowTo when I posted it, but I took it out after feedback
> on the mailing list that indicated it wasn't needed. Here's the two
> versions:
>
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php?title=HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04&diff=3129&oldid=3120
>
> Sorry about that, I didn't omitting it was causing an issue. I guess I
> never use the snapshot feature!

No apology required - I'm the one who provided the feedback that
resulted in the omission of that package.  When I get a chance I will
provide updated iso images of Kubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.10 that will
contain an updated Xastir with snapshots working.

Lee - K5DAT