thank you Gerritv!! new package installed nicely, I played with it a little and drove to visit family with it running.
after christmas I plan to try and get my enviroment set for compilation as there are a few things I'd life to figure out..

the osd info is way to small to read whilst driving, maybe I've missed the config for font size...will investigate
with 'internal' mode there seems to be no way to exit the menu screens...odly this was fine whe running on my ubuntu system.
search didn't seem to work at all, again that works ok on ubuntu build so will try to find out what's going on.

I ran it for sa while with 'follow=1' which is what I'd like whilst driving, but it struglled to keep up, so I would likke to investigate performance options. maybe some things in map drawing can be ignored in favour of speed..

If I can figure out how, I would change the info display to show in BIG text the road I'm on, the road I turn onto next. the speedlimit on this road (if known) in addition to the osd info availiable, but as I said I'd like it all much bigger to see whilst driving.

overall I'm happy that navit is being worked on, and i I can figure out how to help improve it I will. but for nows xmass is in the way.
happy xmass everyone..
and thanks again gerritv