[Xastir] install question

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Rob Neece wrote:
>
>> I just changed my MEPIS installation to 8.5 from 8.0 and kept my /home
>> partition.  This hasn't worked out too badly, and things are getting
>> straightened out.  I finally got around to considering what to do about
>> xastir today.
>
> Here are the instructions for 8.0, old, but probably mostly
> applicable.  Note that there are apt-get commands for getting the
> build environment set up.  Make sure you've run those.
>
>  http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:MEPIS_8.0

The instructions above cover both versions 8.0 and 8.5.  The gcc error
is probably due to the lack of the 'build-essential' package, which
should be the first one listed to be installed in the instructions.

Lee - K5DAT