X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:49:21 -0800 From: Andrew Poelstra To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Git/Xubuntu Message-ID: <20120122164921.GA13355@malakian.lan> References: <4F1C0AA1 DOT 5010404 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F1C0AA1.5010404@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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?"