Building subsurface on Ubuntu

[Dirk Hohndel]

"Robert C. Helling" <helling at lmu.de> writes:

> 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.

So let's add that to the website.

I'll be more than happy to rewrite that page so it is easier to
understand. 

> 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

Ok.

> 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.

The question that SHOULD be shown is "would you like to upgrade to a
real Linux distribution?" and then links to openSUSE, Fedora or
Archlinux :-)

/D