He Chaim, there's another solution.

Instead, edit './configure'. It is a shell script that was
autogenerated. Manually find where fig2dev was used and comment those
lines out.

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 12:11 -0600, Chaim Krause wrote:
> Comments in configure suggest it is needed to build /DOCS. I commented
> out the two lines referencing fig2dev, but when I run regen.sh I hit
> another roadblocks. Namely aclocal: command not found and autoconf:
> command not found. It looks like this rabbit hole is just getting
> deeper and darker. :-(
> 
> I'll go ask this on the appropriate mailing list, but I wonder if I
> can "manually" install the debian package without using dpkg.
> 
> Anybody know of a hosting provider that provides mantis AND
> (subversion OR Hg) AND scmbug that is inexpensive enough for hobby
> (but not necessarily FOSS) projects?
> 
> thanx,
> chaim
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Kristis Makris <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > It's probably needed by the VDD Generator.  But, you could still install
> > scmbug and not use that tool. You can override the installation with
> > dpkg ... but I guess DreamHost won't let you do that.
> >
> > Comment out in configure.in the line that requires fig2dev, and
> > run ./regen.sh; ./configure
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:55 -0600, Chaim Krause wrote:
> >> I have a private server with DreamHost - which means I can't run dpkg,
> >> apt-get, or rpm. I can install from source but I am having problems. The
> >> scmbug source requires fig2dev which I don't have installed. The only way 
> >> to
> >> install that from source is via the use of xmkmf, which is an X11 package.
> >>
> >> My question is why is fig2dev required. I don't know about fig2dev, but it
> >> appears to be used with X11, which is not something I would expect to be on
> >> a server that would be running scmbug.
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> >

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