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Typical Install
First, let's describe it: This will give you a working Xastir with local Shapefile maps, online street/topo/satellite-image maps, weather alerts, and audio alerts. Optionally you can add synthesized speech to the mix.
You'll need to run xastir/scripts/get-NWSdata as root after you do the install in order to get the NOAA data files you'll need for the weather alerts.
This is what you'd like to see at the end of the "../configure" run (minimum, there may be more "yes" answers):
Building with AX25.......... : no Building with Festival...... : no Building with GPSMan........ : no Building with ImageMagick... : yes Building with libproj....... : no Building with GeoTiff....... : no Building with GDAL/OGR...... : no Building with ShapeLib...... : yes Building with pcre.......... : yes Building with dbfawk........ : yes Building with libgc (Debug). : no