Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio build dependencies

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Larry Doolittle said the following on 01/06/2006 10:23 PM:
> John et al. -
> 
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> 
>>BTW -- one of the challenges with Debian is that the automake version
>>that's installed by default is 1.4.  I don't know why they continue to
>>include such an ancient version.  You need to uninstall 1.4 and install
>>1.9 (which is available as "automake1.9") and then things seem to work
>>from the tools perspective.
> 
> 
> apt-cache search automake
> apt-get install automake1.9
> man update-alternatives
> update-alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.9
> 
> No need to delete automake1.4.  It's the Debian way.  ;-)
> 
>     - Larry

Thanks, I missed the update-alternatives bit.  But why the need to run
such an ancient version of the tool?

John