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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:49:21 -0800
From: Andrew Poelstra <asp11 AT sfu DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] Git/Xubuntu
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:09:53AM -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote:
> Well, It took me a while, but I've got gschem and PCB working via Git.
> 
> Last night I was pulling my hair out going through dependency hull, so I
> slept on it.
>

Installing gEDA from your package manager, or from source? If it was
from source, was the problem that ./configure kept telling you you
were missing things?
 
> Sometime between now and then I realized all the Gtk errors might be due
> to the fact I wasn't running Gnome.

Most likely, you just need gnome installed (or some gtk packages).
Actually running it is unnecessary, unless you want to.

>                                     So I installed and started a Gnome
> session, ran gschem, and it complained about PCB-gtk and PCB-lesstif
> weren't installed. I installed them, and the programs are now running. I
> haven't used them yet, but at least now they are starting.
> 
> I found one mistake in the instructions, make install wouldn't run, but
> sudo make install did.
>

This is fine. Some people don't have sudo. Some people don't install
into directories they don't have permissions for. So there's probably
no general way to fix the instructions.
 
> If there is interest, I can do another Git/Xubuntu install on my test
> box, and document what's what.
> 

No thanks. If the problem was simply missing dependecies, it's not a
big deal since developers are (mostly) used to dealing with that sort
of thing, and users don't need to, since their package manager will
deal with it for them.

-- 
Andrew Poelstra
Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew
"I don't understand. Are you saying dualism is always good, or always bad?"

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