building knowit 0.11a1 on ubuntu 8.04

downloaded knowit-0.11a1.tar.bz2
ran make -f Makefile.cvs - this failed due to tool versioning problems and missing automake
sudo apt-get automake
edited admin/cvs.sh to fix versioning problems
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure
make
sudo make install

can now run /usr/bin/knowit