[Xastir] Installing latest on hardy?

[Jim]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Jim wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info on ax25.  I was able to (I think) get it 
>> connected to my modem.  Have no idea if it's working yet, but at 
>> least it put the tnc into kiss mode.
>
> Are you sure about that last?  Typically you have to put the TNC
> into KISS mode on your own via a terminal program.
>
>
>> I downloaded the latest source and did the bootstrap.sh and configure 
>> steps. In the INSTALL file, there are only two manditory 
>> dependencies.  I have satisfied both of them and the ./configure 
>> command kicked out some warnings but completed.  However the make 
>> failed almost immediately.  Should this work on Ubuntu 8.04?
>
> Without any indication of the error message we're in the dark as to
> what to tell you.
My first thought was to make sure the latest code didn't depend on a 
later release of  Ubuntu.  I didn't want to waste space with error codes 
if I wasn't barking up the right tree.
>
> Have you seen the HOWTO documents specific to various Ubuntu flavors
> on the www.xastir.org web pages?  I'd suggest following those as
> many have come before you and succeeded with that method.
Nope, I'll look for them.  Thanks,
Jim.