Mail Archives: geda-help/2012/01/22/11:54:55
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.
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