On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 22:30 -0700, Tom Russo wrote: > 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. > Thanks for filling in the gaps. While waiting last night (the xastir website and I suspect the list server being down again) I did a recompile and the error did go away. Now I need to find a UK map that I can make work. Might have to run up my laptop over the weekend which still has Ubuntu 8.04 on and compare how things run as there have been a few problems with other Ham apps on 8.10 Roger
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