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From:	Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Installing geda, pcb from scratch
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Hi Richard,

On Mon, 20 Jun 2022, Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> As a result of a long-overdue Linux upgrade (to Kubuntu 20.04), I'm trying
> to install pcb and geda (most notably gschem) from scratch, but I'm running
> into some problems.
> 
> As there are no packages for this distribution, I need to build everything
> from source. Some time ago, I already got a development version from a git
> repo, but unfortunately, trying to update it results in an error message:
>
>       ~/electron/pcb-development/pcb$ git pull
>       fatal: unable to connect to git.geda-project.org:
>       git.geda-project.org[0: 159.250.13.27]: errno=Connection Refused
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Or if the repo is indeed inaccessible, then where can
> I find the sources for the latest stable versions?

the recommended way to install gEDA/gaf is from the source tarball:

     http://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.10/1.10.2/geda-gaf-1.10.2.tar.gz

Git access to the repository at

     git://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf.git

seems to be currently broken; you can use my GitHub repository instead:

     https://github.com/rlutz/geda-gaf

It may be preferable to switch to the "stable-1.10" branch before building 
from the repository unless you want the latest development version.  Make 
sure to install the additional dependencies (it may be necessary to clean 
the repository if you tried to build before installing them) and run 
./autogen.sh before running ./configure.

> Also, when installing the dependencies listed here:
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gaf_building_git_version , I could not
> locate a suitable gtk+ candidate in Kubuntu's package management, but maybe
> I overlooked it.

This would be "libgtk2.0-dev".

> The easiest would of course be pcb / geda package versions for Kubuntu 
> 20.04 "Focal Fossa".

Kai-Martin built a Debian package some while ago:

     https://salsa.debian.org/kmk/geda-gaf

If you are comfortable with building Debian/Ubuntu packages from source, 
you may want to give this a try.

Be warned that GTK looks somewhat broken by default on Ubuntu 20.04. This 
can probably be fixed by installing the proper theme, but I haven't looked 
into the details yet.

Roland

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