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Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>:

>
> Am 02.05.2013 um 22:33 schrieb Chris Fisichella:
>
>> I found I needed to bring in over sixty other source tarballs.
>
> Ouch. That's a bit much.
>
> I'm not sure wether you're aware of it, but in PCBs src/ folder is a

> script "pcbtest.sh" which is meant to run the freshly compiled  
> executable for testing. Works always fine here and requires no  
> library tree duplication. not even an installation of the new PCB  
> binary. I hope it's in the source tarball, too; for myself I build  
> from the git repo.
>
>
> Markus
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter
> http://www.jump-ing.de/

Hi Markus,

Yes, it was a bit much but I had to play it safe as the first  
installation crippled X. I didn't have the luxury for multiple  
attempts and the approach I took, although tedious, was successful.

In addition to pcb, I also needed gschem. pcb was, by far, the easiest  
to install. The default Debian installation appeared to be out of sync  
with the tutorial. I really just wanted to finish the tutorial, so I  
built it from scratch.

I will try out the pcbtest script

Thanks for the tip,
Chris