[Xastir] Installing Xastir on Mint

[Tom Russo]

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> > > Can somebody please point me in the right direction for current 
> > > information on installing Xastir on a Mint system?
> > 
> > Generally speaking, if you look at something like the Ubuntu instructions
> > and try to find packages with the same base name as the ones listed (modulo
> > version numbers which are very likely outdated), you should be on the right
> > path.
> 
> Jason's suggestion of looking at Debian's instructions is a good one, since
> Mint is a Debian variant.  
> 
> Ignore all reference to GDAL.  Xastir no longer uses it and that section of
> that wiki guide didn't get updated.

Well, it is now.  Just went through this one page and cleaned it up.  I also
removed a bunch of links to OS versions that are ridiculously old (2009 and
thereabouts) and even one that appears no longer to exist (mepis).

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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