On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:58:29PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: [removing db4.4 and others] > OK all I have now is libdB4.7 and 4.6 which I left because synaptic > wanted to rip out a lot more stuff most of which looked like it was > still required. > But I still get the same mention of 4.4 whe i start xastir
When removing these, it's generally necessary only to remove the -dev packages, not all the run time packages. The run-time packages are often required by other packages and will break things if you remove them (as you noticed), but you should only have a single -dev package, and it should match the highest (latest) version of the collection of run-time packagess you've got installed. So you can have both libdb4.7 and libdb4.6 packages, but you should only have libdb4.7-dev. Xastir's configure procedure looks for the highest numbered release of Berkeley DB, and links against that. The -dev package that is installed has got to match that version. Most (if not all) Ubuntu packages that depend on Berkeley DB of a particular version only require the run-time, not the -dev. -dev packages are for codes you'll be building from source. The dev packages are the ones with the header files used to build other codes from source, the run-time packages have the shared libraries and any associated applications. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
