Gentlemen: Thank you all very much for your time and trouble in this matter. I've read the stuff you guys write, and I like it. Keep up the fine work. Respectfully, John Wagner <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, David Brown <<a href="mailto:plt@davidb.org">plt@davidb.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:41:16AM -0600, Robby Findler wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The one trick with compiling from source is making sure you have all of the development packages installed. If you get stuck with that, feel free to ask questions. The first one to install is the g++ packages. Then, try to find the "dev" version of the "xft" library and try to find the dev version of "libxaw". Those require lots of other packages that will get you most of the way there, if not all of the way. </blockquote> </div> The 'build-essential' meta package provides a decent set of development packages. You'll need libssl-dev. Actually, a good starting point would be to look at the build dependencies listed in <<a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/plt-scheme/plt-scheme_4.1.5-1.dsc" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/plt-scheme/plt-scheme_4.1.5-1.dsc</a>> for the existing Ubuntu package, which should be quite close. David </blockquote></div> -- John Wagner Alhambra and Los Angeles