[Xastir] I got it to work with ubuntu 10.04 but

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:12:58PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <radioguy at frontiernet.net> flavor, containing:
> Scott Evans, you da man!
> 
> I had to re-read the email you sent me several times before I got it but 
> it WORKS!
> VLC is even working. So, 10.04 LTS I say is Fantastic!
> 
> Do you know how to get a perl script to run? get-fcc-rac.pl is what I am 
> trying to run.

Have you reported this issue on launchpad?  If 10.04 is indeed intended to
be an LTS distribution, having a bug like this could be an annoyance that will
linger if it's not fixed early.

The LTS releases tend not to update components very often.  If lesstif has
this bug now then the version in 10.04 could easily continue to have that
bug for the whole 3-year life of the release.  I keep my main SAR laptop on
an LTS release for stability, but the trade-off is that sometimes a package
gets busted and stays that way, and I have to build from source instead.

On the other hand, perhaps the entire issue could be gotten rid of by using
OpenMotif instead of Lesstif (as recommended in the various Ubuntu HowTos
on the wiki).  Have you tried using OpenMotif instead of lesstif?

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