Building subsurface on Ubuntu

[Robert C. Helling]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Dirk Hohndel wrote:

Dirk,

> What is wrong with http://subsurface.hohndel.org/building/

I would agree that this is the place where this information should be 
found. OTOH I would agree with Jan, that for some people (like the average 
Ubuntu user) some of the information there might be a bit implict in the 
current version. Like we give all shell commands to build libdivecompuer 
but we don't do that for subsurface. And this is the gap that Jan probably 
wanted to fill in.

Out of curiosity, I have just tried on my old netbook (running Ubuntu 
12.04 LTS)  to download and install from scratch. As far as dependencies 
go, in my case I had to also

sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool

in order to build libdivecomputer (if we are painfully explicit we should 
at least be complete). In particular, the fact that libtool was not 
installed was not obvious from the error message that autoreconf gave... 
And of course one has to say 'yes' to all missing dependencies.

Best
Robert

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