OK, so in the meantime i went to the
http://wired.sourceforge.net/ site and downloaded the tar.gz file for version 0.6 ... the latest. I followed the instructions in INSTALL and everything behaved without complaint until right at the end of the MAKE procedure ... where it spits out this complaint ...
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SettingWindow.cpp: In constructor `SettingWindow::SettingWindow()':
SettingWindow.cpp:69: error: syntax error before `.' token
SettingWindow.cpp:69: error: syntax error before `)' token
SettingWindow.cpp:70: error: syntax error before `.' token
SettingWindow.cpp:70: error: syntax error before `)' token
SettingWindow.cpp:71: error: syntax error before `.' token
SettingWindow.cpp:71: error: syntax error before `)' token
SettingWindow.cpp:72: error: syntax error before `.' token
SettingWindow.cpp:72: error: syntax error before `)' token
SettingWindow.cpp:73: error: syntax error before `.' token
SettingWindow.cpp:73: error: syntax error before `)' token
make[2]: *** [SettingWindow.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/je/Desktop/wired-0.6/src/gui'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/je/Desktop/wired-0.6/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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Both the ./autogen.sh and ./configure steps worked without error
Has anybody got any ideas??? ... it seems it was just a breath away from completing the MAKE successfully
Thanks Rfah